When You Find Yourself Alone,

A Novel Is Written Not To Be Judged, But Experienced.

Description Is Hard. Remember That All Description Is An Opinion About The World. Find A Place To Stand.

There Is Something Wonderful About A Death, How Everything Shuts Down, And All The Ways You Thought You Were Vital Are Not Even Vaguely Important. Your Husband Can Feed The Kids, He Can Work The New Oven, He Can Find The Sausages In The Fridge, After All. And His Important Meeting Was Not Important, Not In The Slightest.

I Can't Think Of Anything You Might Say About Irish People That Is Absolutely True.

My Kids Are Supposed To Live Till They Are One Hundred. You Don't Have To Have A Perfect House Or A Perfect Relationship With Your Child Or A Perfect Child, And You Yourself Do Not Have To Be Perfect.