The Wren, The Wren is a captivating and beautifully written, but strenuous, book to read, with its non-linear format and frequent use of no conversational quotation marks. The opening of the book drew me in, a psychology expert's study on the ways people think, and the book
…more followed that fascinating beginning with every character. Told through the perspectives of three generations of women, the wife, daughter and granddaughter of an Irish poet who left his family, each offers slices of the chapters of her life with many references to both wild birds and their songs. Snuggled in between those is a small section narrated by the poet himself, the man whose influence has greatly affected them all, and snatches here and there of old Irish poetry, some of which is his. I love Enright's use of language throughout. One of my favorite lines was given to the granddaughter: "A year out of college, I was poking my snout and whiskers into fresh adult air…" Truly a book worth reading! (less)
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