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Loading... We Are the Brennans: A Novel (original 2021; edition 2021)by Tracey Lange (Author)
Work InformationWe Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange (2021)
   Top Five Books of 2021 (199) No current Talk conversations about this book. A very solid family drama with quite realistic characters and interesting story. (  ) tonimeter | May 13, 2022 |  An interesting story about an Irish family. Somewhat predictable but there were some interesting situations and characters. (  ) shazjhb | Jan 14, 2022 | Certainly a page turner and fun read. I found the end too obvious and hated how everything was wrapped up at the end. I didn't want all the couples to work everything out. I would have liked more surprising twists; however, I couldn't put it down, so I obviously enjoyed it. (  ) Beth.Clarke | Dec 30, 2021 | Sunday Brennan, the only girl among three brothers, has been living on her own in L.A. for five years, but when she drives drunk and gets into an accident, her brother Denny is still her emergency contact, and he convinces her to come home to New York, at least for a while. There, inevitably, secrets begin to unravel - and there are a LOT of secrets. They're all connected in some way to the Walsh family, but each Brennan has a piece of the story, and their secrets are hurting each other. See also: The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo, The Walking People by Mary Beth Keane Quotes It was painful to recognize failings in the people you idolized. (Kale, 88) "You end up feeling like you're in it alone, but it's your own fault. You got to give trust to get it, Denny." (Theresa, 202) He was stuck somewhere between their past and their present and didn't know how to get unstuck without the answer to that question. (Kale, 211) He'd blamed her for so long. Now it seemed his dad deserved just as much blame, if not more. Whatever. He was tired of blaming people, including himself. (Jackie, 226) They just lacked a fundamental intimacy that kept someone from feeling alone in the world. (Kale and Vivienne, 259) Family didn't mean hiding the hard stuff from each other, it meant facing it together. And it meant forgiving each other. (271) (  ) JennyArch | Nov 7, 2021 | This was quite nicely written, but a bit typical Maeve Binchy family saga-y. ( ) pgchuis | Nov 7, 2021 | no reviews | add a review
'An astonishingly accomplished debut - the Brennans leap fully formed onto the page in this brilliantly judged novel of the intricacies of family life . . . Wholly engrossing.' Cathy KellySome secrets you keep from your family. And some secrets you keep for your family. When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk-driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it's not easy. She deserted them all - and her high school sweetheart - five years before, with little explanation, and they've got questions. Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the East Coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family's pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all of their secrets - secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes-and ultimately find a way forward, together. In the vein of Maggie O'Farrell and John Boyne, Tracey Lange's critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame-and the redemptive power of love, in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.'An astonishingly accomplished debut . . . Secrets abound and it's blissful to watch the Brennans from the sidelines . . .Wholly engrossing.' Cathy Kelly No library descriptions found. |
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