At Weddings And Wakes

Description for AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES by Alice McDermott:

Sipping effortlessly between past and present, between memory and observation, AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES tells the story of three generations of an Irish-Catholic family through the eyes of its younger members. At once a haunting evocation of life's inexplicable calamities and a magical celebration of childhood and familial love, AT WEDDINGS AND WAKES transforms every experience into the heroic and the universal. It is a testament to the remarkable gift of a literary master writing at the peak of her story telling powers.