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The Green Road
by Anne Enright
The Green Road is the story of a dysfunctional Irish Family, about half a generation older than my own family, as the four children grow up and apart and live the lives they chose. We see their choices and failures, their relationships with the world around them and with each other. The home of their childhood and their complicated mother are the center of their orbit, despite how much heartache and trauma they've caused.
I don't even know how to rate this book.
*It took me WAY too long to read.
*It's just only ever hard and depressing. Truly.
*It is a nuanced and intimate.
*The language of this story is lovely and it is well written, I just never enjoyed reading it.
*While it is an "Irish" book, it also takes place all over the world and I didn't feel like I knew the characters well enough before I saw them overseas to understand how all of that fit together.
*It did give me a lot to think about, especially about my role as the mother of adult children.
I can only give it three stars. If there was a movie about it, I wouldn't want to watch it. But I'm not sorry I finished it.
I don't even know how to rate this book.
*It took me WAY too long to read.
*It's just only ever hard and depressing. Truly.
*It is a nuanced and intimate.
*The language of this story is lovely and it is well written, I just never enjoyed reading it.
*While it is an "Irish" book, it also takes place all over the world and I didn't feel like I knew the characters well enough before I saw them overseas to understand how all of that fit together.
*It did give me a lot to think about, especially about my role as the mother of adult children.
I can only give it three stars. If there was a movie about it, I wouldn't want to watch it. But I'm not sorry I finished it.