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ruthiella 's review for:
The Green Road
by Anne Enright
The Green Road is about an Irish family and spans three decades, beginning in the 1980s. The story is then split in to two parts. The first part is an installment from the point of view of each of the children in subsequent time periods and each portion could be read as a standalone short story: Hanna as a young girl in Ireland in the early 1980s, Dan as a young man in New York in the early 1990s, Constance as a middle aged mother in Ireland in the boom years of the late 1990s, Emmet as a middle aged relief worker in Africa in the early oughts and finally their mother Rosaleen in the present day. The second part of the book is when the now adult children gather together one last time for Christmas before their mother sells their childhood home.
I found the writing to be interesting in a stream of consciousness way. It required me to pay close attention because I had to fill in certain gaps in the narrative. But ultimately the book left me a bit cold. I think part of my problem is that the first section really is like a string of short stories, and even though they are cohesive and hang together, short stories are simply not my preferred format.
I found the writing to be interesting in a stream of consciousness way. It required me to pay close attention because I had to fill in certain gaps in the narrative. But ultimately the book left me a bit cold. I think part of my problem is that the first section really is like a string of short stories, and even though they are cohesive and hang together, short stories are simply not my preferred format.