A review by aust1nz
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann

2.0

I've absolutely loved a few books by Column McCann, especially Let the Great World Turn, but this book totally failed to capture me.

TransAtlantic unfolds in interconnected short stories with conspicuous connections between Northern Ireland and the Americas. A few of the characters are based on real people, and the rest are a fictional family traced across generations.

McCann's prose is poetic but the wistful, elegaic stories provide too little tension or conflict to propel these stories forward.