Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Waiting on Wednesday: New Anne Enright Novel

 

 
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature of the Breaking the Spine blog.  It's a great way to share information about forthcoming books with other readers.  Today I'm featuring The Green Road by critically acclaimed author Anne Enright.


The Green Road 
Publisher:  W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Publication Date: May 11, 2015

From barnesandnoble.comA major new novel from the winner of the Man Booker Prize.  From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.  The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion, and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.  Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart.  As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa.  In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds.  Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date. 



Which book are you waiting for?
...Will you add this one to your list of must-reads?


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