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I won an ARC of this book in a Goodreads Giveaway. The cover was lovely. I am going to Ireland next May, so I was even more interested than I would have been to read a memoir set in the rural Irish countryside of my ancestors.
This was more a series of simple vignettes rather than a narrative structure, and like all books of this type, some stories resonated more with me than others. Tom Phelan has a way with words.
Ultimately, I thought this book was a love story of home and family and, especially, of his father. The last few chapters got me teary-eyed. So if he wrote through the rose-colored glasses of years gone by, I am not going to complain. Everyone knows the life of a poor, rural Irish farmer was hard, but Tom Phelan manages to highlight the love and stability he experienced at his childhood home without depressing the bejeezus out of me like so many Irish writers.
This was more a series of simple vignettes rather than a narrative structure, and like all books of this type, some stories resonated more with me than others. Tom Phelan has a way with words.
Ultimately, I thought this book was a love story of home and family and, especially, of his father. The last few chapters got me teary-eyed. So if he wrote through the rose-colored glasses of years gone by, I am not going to complain. Everyone knows the life of a poor, rural Irish farmer was hard, but Tom Phelan manages to highlight the love and stability he experienced at his childhood home without depressing the bejeezus out of me like so many Irish writers.