Description

All the nine reports in this superbly written, extremely personal selection centers around a moment that adjusts the fragile balance of power between child and mom, or changes how they understand one-another. With beautiful eloquence and elegance, Tóibín creates of women and men bound by tradition, by silent feelings, by the stronghold of yesteryear. Most are caught in lives they'd not select again, if they actually selected whatsoever. A guy buries his mom and changes his suffering to wish in one single evening.