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At Weddings and Wakes
Alice McDermott

At Weddings and Wakes

Picador (Nov 24, 2009)
9780312429430
| Trade Paperback
224 pages | 140 x 210 mm | English

Genre

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Romance
  • Teens
  • Young Adult

Subject

  • Brothers And Sisters
  • Domestic Fiction
  • Historical Fiction
  • Irish Americans
  • Long Island (N.Y.)

Plot

Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink. Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected love, dutifully absorbing the legacy of their less-than-perfect family. Alice McDermott beautifully evokes three generations of an Irish-American family in this "haunting and masterly work of literary art" (The Wall Street Journal).