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barrypierce 's review for:
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
I recently went to see Anne Enright speak when she came to my university. She’s one of those authors who I just know I’d be best friends with. Is that weird? Probably. Oh well. Anyway, The Green Road (2015) is Enright’s sixth and latest novel. The novel is half-narrative/half-vignettes. The first half of the novel is concerned with vignettes that narrate the lives of the members of the Madigan family as they lead their diasporic lives in the late 20th century. The second half sees all the siblings return home for Christmas to see their aggressively Irish mother. The novel is… brilliant. If we need any proof that we are currently going through a second Irish Literary Revival then it is all here, plastered over the pages of The Green Road. I already know that this is going to be one of my favourite novels of the year and it’s only March. Anne Enright has a way of writing that grabs you even if she is only describing a sugar bowl. But, my god, it’s going to be the best sugar bowl you’ve ever read about.