Tóibín returns to his native Ireland for most of these nine pristine stories, contemporary tales of lives haunted by loss, whether it's the legacy of a sexually abusive priest in an already complicated love triangle, the long-absent gay son who returns to Dublin from New York to attend to his mother's last moments, or the aching void that greets an academic's return to a family home on the Irish coast in the wistful title story.
Affairs, airports, and deathbeds populate a mature prose that is tender, often sexual, and complex. Toibin proves that his mastery of language is matched only by his acute understanding of human longing.
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