Modern Fiction Book of the Month – October 2024

Published on Mon, 2024-10-07 12:51
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While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he’s supposed to do. He works hard, he studies, and he – mostly – stays out of trouble. The thirty-year conflict is over, he’s told, and his future is lit with promise. But when Sean returns home from university, he finds much of the same – the same friends doing the same gear in the same clubs, the same fathers and brothers missing… One night, he assaults a stranger at a party, and everything begins to come undone. Close to Home begins with this sudden act of violence and expands into a startling portrait of working-class Ireland under the long shadow of the Troubles.  //  Discuss in the Fiction reading group  //

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