The Blackwater Lightship
Registered by bookstogive of Springville, Tennessee USA on 1/16/2012
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It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.
It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.
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Thank you for this book, bookstogive. It took me so long to make a journal entry for this book because I put it on the birthday pile. (My birthday was yesterday so it finally got opened.)
Thank you for this book, bookstogive. It took me so long to make a journal entry for this book because I put it on the birthday pile. (My birthday was yesterday so it finally got opened.)
Very readable with good descriptions of the setting in Ireland. I had a hard time understanding the estranged relationship between Helen and her mother. It appears that Helen felt abandoned when her father died when she was a child, and in truth, she was. Her mother withdrew emotionally in a very selfish way. Yet, the mother makes remarks about Helen as though Helen is a very difficult person. I never read about any evidence of this. So, the mother is apparently an intelligent woman who makes a lot of money owning a computer business. Yet, the mother fails to see how she did anything wrong with her bad reaction to her husband's death. The grandmother is also a very difficult and strong woman who does not get along with her daughter. The grandmother's rickety cottage at the seaside is the setting of much of the book.
Journal Entry 5 by tabby-cat-owner at Little Free Library, Intersection of 21st St and Harris Ave in Bellingham, Washington USA on Friday, November 3, 2023