The Gathering POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards for Fiction (2015) In this concise and compelling

In this concise and compelling history

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compelled to play host to his younger son

he rushes to be by her bedside--but he's not alone

The Gathering POPULAR-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards for Fiction (2015) In this concise and compellingAnne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Irelands most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His