The Visitor

From celebrated Irish writer Maeve Brennan, The New Yorker’s “Long-Winded Lady,” comes The Visitor—the earliest of all of her known writings—that tells the haunting story of a young woman who returns to her grandmother's home only to face the painful consequences of long-buried family secrets

Anastasia King returns to her grandmother's house in Dublin—the very house where she grew up—after six long years away. She has been in Paris, comforting her disgraced and dying mother, the runaway fro...