Quick Pick: July 22, 2016
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell
Daniel Sullivan leads a very complicated existence. He lives with his reclusive actress wife and their children in Ireland, but he’s about to return home to America for his estranged father’s ninetieth birthday, where his estranged children from a former marriage also live. And if this wasn’t stressing him out enough, he just received news about someone very important from is life twenty years ago. What’s a guy to do? O’Farrell is wonderfully ambitious and writes about family and relationships in such an interesting and heart-wrenching way. This is a touching, original story – narrated by many of the characters – about love, marriage, second chances, and the past.
Backlist bump: Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O’Farrell