New Irish Fiction

Ambitious, far-reaching and mythic, it introduces a group of characters whose lives we will come to know and will follow through time and space until they reach their natural conclusion.

From internationally bestselling author John Boyne comes a masterfully reflective story about one woman coming to terms with the demons of her past and finding a new path forward.

Staying Thin for Daddy is the debut English-language short story collection from Brennan, one of Ireland's leading writers in both the Irish and English languages. The book was long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Collection Award.

Maeve Brennan adds her voice to those of Joyce and Beckett in her depiction of a certain Dublin in time.

In these delightful, melancholy prose sketches Maeve Brennan goes in pursuit of the ordinary, taking us on a tour of the cheap hotels, unassuming restaurants, and crowded streets of New York City.

In the stories that compose this scintillating collection, Maeve Brennan turns her anatomist's eye to the ugly feelings that teem just beneath the surface of family life - doing so, however, with an attention to detail that makes these unsparing portraits luminous and exquisite.