The Irish Goodbye – Micro–Memoirs - Beth Ann Fennelly

What can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother and daughter in precise sentences. The longer essays concern Fennelly’s relationships–with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude... Zobrazit více