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Author:
Gavin McCrea
Publisher:
Scribe US
Date:
June 6, 2023
Gavin is spending the quarantine in a small flat in south Dublin with his eighty-year-old mother, whose mind is slowly slipping away. He has lived most of his adult life abroad and has returned home to care for her and to write a novel. But he finds that all he can write about is her.
What The Reviewers Say
Cells cuts to the chase with bruising yet invigorating clarity. Yes, it remorselessly hangs out a family’s dirty laundry, but it’s also a sharp piece of social and cultural analysis, not to mention a laying bare of the mysterious impulses behind the wish to write..
... eviscerating.
... a raw and deeply affecting memoir.
... an incautiously intimate stocktake of the places and people that have mired McCrea’s life in pain and grief.
