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/100
I Index Overall Rating
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67/100Critics
61/100Scholars
Author:
Darran Anderson
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
August 4, 2020
A working-class writer recalls coming of age during the violent final years of the Troubles in Derry, Northern Ireland, and his family's complicated history in the city.
What The Reviewers Say
Inventory reads like a dam-burst, then, an overwhelming of Derry, of Northern Ireland, with memory, its coursing rivers, undercurrents, treacherous accumulations.
... there were moments when I had to put down his book, so unsettlingly vivid were his descriptions of the casual acts of violence and petty humiliations that defined the time.
... Anderson's personal and generational memoir eschews a straightforward narrative for a freer form of nonfiction.
Inventory recalls not only the violence of the place but also the quotidian details of growing up poor, a dreamy kid whose love of books set him apart.
