Even If You're Going To

Anakana Schofield Is Part Of A New Wave Of Wonderful Irish Fiction-international In Scope And Electrically Alive.

I Guess This Is What Marriage Is, Or Was, Or Could Be. You Drop The Mask. You Allow The Fatigue In. You Lean Across And Kiss The Years Because They're The Things That Matter.

Part Of The Beauty Of Fiction Is That We Come Alive In A Body That We Don't Own.

The Essence Of Intelligence Was To Know When, Or If, To Expose Even The Heart's Deep Need For Instruction.

So Much Of Her Time Spent Like This: Dreaming Up Things To Say And Never Quite Saying Them.