The Gathering by Anne Enright, is this year's Man Booker Prize Winner. undeterred by it's rather overpriced version, i purchased the book and started reading 2 days ago. it is a story about a big Irish family, as they cope with lives.
We see the struggle through the eyes of its protagonist, Veronica Hegarty, as she mourns the death of her brother (who committed suicide). the story traces the the cause of the psychological instability of the brother, with too many switches of flashbacks and present time that sometimes you lose count. in one of the chapters, when veronica uses her imagination to write whether Ada becomes Lamb Nugent's lover, enright tries to use the layout of 2 different scenarios, but this is done without success, as the readers tend to get confused.
nevertheless, this is a powerful book, as it traces veronica's love-hate relationship with her family, and the fear that envelops her aftermath Liam's suicide, the fear of living life to the fullest that leads her marriage to go stale.
finally, Veronica comes to term with Liam's death, as she meets Liam's son, the hope of the Hegarty's, and goes back to her husband.
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