The Gathering was stunning with the critics comparing the narrative tone to Joan Didion's "furious, cool grief" and James Joyce's Dubliners. It won the Man Booker Prize in 2007. Another review said "Entrancing, unflinching and insightful....a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable." I liked this summary best: Anne Enright's fiction is jet dark--but how it glitters."
Am thoroughly enjoying Half Broke Horses by Jeanette Walls (The Glass Castle) and it seems like may a couple of you recommended that? As you recall, Glass Castles was autobiographical and Half Broke Horses is about her grandmother and is sprinkled with sepia-tone photos. I just love her style. -BT
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