![]() ![]() This sounds like a tangled, complicated story, but Enright’s writing is smooth and lyrical. It is also the story of marriage and children-the people we choose to live our lives with and the ones we don’t-the choices we make and decisions (or circumstances) made for us. It is time to call an end to romance and just say what happened in Ada’s house, the year that I was eight and Liam was barely nine. It is time to put an end to the shifting stories and the waking dreams. ![]() ![]() I know, as I write about these three things: the jacket, the stones, and my brother’s nakedness underneath his clothes, that they require me to deal in facts. At its heart is the story of a sister and her brother, their intense attachment within the milieu of a big Irish, multi-generational family. The Gathering by Anne Enright is a provocative family saga that delves into questions of secrets, memory and truth. All I have are stories, night thoughts, the sudden convictions that uncertainty spawns. I do not know the truth, or I do not know how to tell the truth. ![]()
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