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Discuss Colm Toibin's short story collection "The Empty Family"

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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The LGBT Community Center
208 W 13th St
New York, NY

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