The Gathering (edit title)

• Rated 2 stars

“Well-written, interesting characters but the plot ... I mean, it seemed like there was a plot, I kept waiting for a plot, but it just seemed like memory after insight after memory after consideration after supposing after memory. I couldn't finish. I hate not finishing. Especially a good author.”

• Rated 1 stars

“An extremely difficult book to read, both in writing style and the fact that you don't really care about any of the characters. I could not wait to finish this book and never open it again.”

• Rated 3 stars

“Painful to read but Enright is a wonderful author. She has the personalities in a large Irish family "nailed"--and I should know!”

• Rated 5 stars

“amazing read. 80,000 stars.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Beautiful writing. Loved it.”

• Rated 4 stars

“This one took some pages to get me, but once it did, it never let me go. Haunted and haunting, seeing a story of loss through the always hazy lens of memory. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“beautiful prose.”

• Rated 3 stars

“The nine surviving Hegarty siblings gather together in the family home in Dublin for the wake of their brother Liam. In the observance of a life now ended, Liam's sister Veronica (the narrator) recalls the past - both real and perhaps imagined - to try to understand the why and the how of Liam's life and death.

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• Rated 3 stars

“A very complicated book, rambling thru time, and unpleasant memories.”