The Gathering
Veronica's brother has died after a long and troubling descent watched by herself and her siblings. She's resigned, her and her eight surviving siblings are coming together to their mother's house to hold the wake and go over all the emotional wreckage that comes to the surface in those times.
Veronica thinks a lot about Liam, but she thinks a lot more about herself, and those choices of her own that have led her to where she is, for better or for worse, with a husband and children and a house. She also thinks a lot about the sex her grandparents had and their friends. She imagines things, edits herself, comments on details shes made up whole cloth or pieced together from something else.
This is not a book I would normally have picked up, but I wanted to read something a little more contemporary. This was good. Enright's style was easy to read, but conveyed complex emotions and transitioned smoothly from the past to the present and back, and when she makes a revelation she makes it quietly.
