First published 2007
A farmer's wife waits in vain for her husband to return home. A priest arrives to offer the last rites, but finds himself drawn to the grieving woman. Amidst the rugged isolation and tradition of their remote Irish village, fragile human connections are tested by the unyielding forces of nature and the relentless tug of the past. At the heart of these lyrical, emotionally-charged tales lies the fragility of the human spirit.
Genres: short-stories, literary-fiction, irish-literature, contemporary
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, lyrical
Tropes: fragile-human-connections, relentless-tug-of-the-past, unyielding-forces-of-nature
Setting: Ireland
168 pages · Paperback · Grove Press, Black Cat