At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel
If you’ve enjoyed Alice McDermotts sweeping prose before, go confidently into At Weddings and Wakes. Rich, fully realized characters come to life in a novel that is as close to real life as you can get.
Pulitzer Prize finalist At Weddings and Wakes is “a brilliant, highly complex, extraordinary piece of fiction” (Chicago Tribune)
Lucy Dailey leaves suburbia twice a week with her three children in tow, returning to the Brooklyn home where she grew up, and where her stepmother and unmarried sisters still live. The children quietly observe Aunt Veronica, who drowns her sorrows in drink, Aunt Agnes, a caustic career woman, and finally Aunt May, the ex-nun, blossoming with a late and unexpected ...



