Where Are the Kings: A Novel

From Irish Book Award winner and Booker finalist Donal Ryan, a funny, tender novel about a young boy who comes of age amid the fallout from his mother’s death

Jack is eleven years old when he bikes furiously down the hill after his mother’s car, desperate to catch her before she reaches the lake. What happens next cannot be undone.

During the already tumultuous years of adolescence, when nothing makes sense even under the best of circumstances, Jack is thrust into a family he’s never known: h...