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elizastudying 's review for:
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
The final sentence of this book made me think of the Ikea ads on attention making everything more beautiful, but it is true. The mother in this book does pay too little attention to everything. Like many other Irish novels, it has a psychological depth to it. It is set around a family reunion and you can see how much all the family members have grown apart, become independent people. They reunite for christmas and though not everything runs smoothly, they do start to realise they are a family and do care for each other. Ultimately, this is a book about what it means to be a modern family, have your own life still, but the book also shows that these people do care too little for each other, or listen too little. I do not think this family is necessarily representative really. I liked it, though that only came fully together at the very end. The earlier part read like short stories, which made it very hard to fully get into it. All in all a good read, though I sometimes did have to force myself to pick it up again.