jbingb 's review for:

The Green Road by Anne Enright

4.0

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60: by Anne Enright...yet another pre-Ireland read. This was somewhat similar to her earlier The Gathering, which I'd previously read, similar in that they both involve families made up of individuals who work to find themselves and appropriately love family, with the complexities involved in that. Here Rosaleen Madigan, mother of all characters, brings them all back home one Christmas--though we have gotten to know them individually and away from her for years--and forces them to briefly get along again. The richness of their development as individuals is one of the book's greatest assets. And like so many great books as well as real life, they aren't all neatly "fixed" by its end. I also enjoyed the places and people of the book for the possibilities of going there and seeing them, hearing them, in person, soon, myself.