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Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
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A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing
A girl grows up in rural Ireland with her mother and her brother, whose childhood brain tumour has left him damaged, told in fractured, half-formed prose.
The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Burnt Sugar
Antara, an artist in Pune, cares for her mother Tara, who is losing her memory, a woman who once walked out on her marriage for an ashram and dragged her small daughter along.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A young Irishman moves from Catholic boyhood through intellectual rebellion to artistic exile, constructing himself word by word into the writer he'll become.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
Telephone
A paleobiologist whose daughter is slowly losing her mind to a rare disease finds a plea for help sewn into a jacket he bought online and drives into the desert to answer it.
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha
Paddy Clarke, ten years old, runs wild with his gang on a new estate on the edge of Dublin in 1968, while at home his parents' marriage comes apart.
The Green Road
Rosaleen Madigan, a difficult matriarch in County Clare, announces she is selling the family house, and her four grown children, scattered from New York to Mali, come home for one last Christmas.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
Three Junes
Three Junes in the lives of the McLeods, a Scottish family: the widowed father on a tour of Greece, his gay son Fenno, a bookseller in New York, and a young artist they both come to know.