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"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
This story swells with intensity—the setting, the characters, the plot—it is both hauntingly familiar and foreign. Reading it was like looking through a family’s Polaroids—different snapshots, different moments—and then rewinding the VCR tape to discover how each particular tableau came to be.
The NY-Irish-1970s atmosphere set the stage, but it’s the relationships that really birth all the epic emotions you experience while reading this book that spans 4-5 decades of life. Oh, the relationships in this book—they broke my heart, they mended my heart, again and again. Francis and Lena, Francis and Katie, Kate and Peter, George and Peter, Peter and Anne, Francis and Brian. I just love them all. In this sweeping drama, so much happens: Childhood innocence gives way to harsh life trajectory changes. Unforgivable actions give way to merciful forgiveness. Abandonment happens. Addiction is suffered. Atonement is sought. But in the end, this is a story about family and love and forgiveness; it’s an answer to the question:“What gets more weight? The good or the bad?” (311) ( )
I quite enjoyed this family drama but I thought it lost some steam towards the end. I think I felt like I was held an arms lenght away from all of the characters instead of fully immersed in them and I wanted to be more wrapped up in their feelings. There were times when I was but more often I felt a bit of a disconnect.
This book took me so long to read. Its good, but slow going. Its not a page turner. More of a family drama which is not my thing right now I guess. I need drama & murder & twists. ( )
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For Owen and Emmett
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Francis Gleeson, tall and thin in his powder blue policeman's uniform, stepped out of the sun and into the shadow of the stocky stone building that was the station house of the Forty-First Precinct.
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"You can't reason with a person who won't be reasoned with," Brian said quietly.
They both learned that a memory is a fact that has been dyed and trimmed and rinsed so many times that it comes out looking almost unrecognizable to anyone else who was in that room, anyone else who was standing on the grass beneath that telephone pole.
"We repeat what we don't repair,"...
He'd been looking at her face for so long that sometimes he forgot to notice it.
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"What do you think?" She asked, the softness in her voice belying the strength in her hands. "Yes," he said. "Yes."
"A family saga about two Irish American families in a New York suburb, the love between two of their children, and the tragedies that threaten to tear them apart and destroy their futures"--
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The NY-Irish-1970s atmosphere set the stage, but it’s the relationships that really birth all the epic emotions you experience while reading this book that spans 4-5 decades of life. Oh, the relationships in this book—they broke my heart, they mended my heart, again and again. Francis and Lena, Francis and Katie, Kate and Peter, George and Peter, Peter and Anne, Francis and Brian. I just love them all. In this sweeping drama, so much happens: Childhood innocence gives way to harsh life trajectory changes. Unforgivable actions give way to merciful forgiveness. Abandonment happens. Addiction is suffered. Atonement is sought. But in the end, this is a story about family and love and forgiveness; it’s an answer to the question:“What gets more weight? The good or the bad?” (311) (