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Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction (Chicago Tribune)

Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this haunting and masterly work of literary art (The Wall Street Journal).

At Weddings and Wakes

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9781250888365, 978-1250888365
      ISBN10: 1250888360

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction (Chicago Tribune)

      Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this haunting and masterly work of literary art (The Wall Street Journal).

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