The Wren, the Wren
A celebrated poet walks out on his family, and Enright prints his poems beside the wreckage so readers can price one against the other.
Three generations of Irish women live in the shadow of a celebrated poet who abandoned his family, and Enright gives each of them the language to say what that cost. The poems attributed to him are printed alongside, so the reader can weigh the art directly against the wreckage it was made from.
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Maria Popova
Anne Enright faces this abyss in her lyrical novel The Wren, the Wren (public library), drawing from it not a point of despair but portal of possibility.
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