We Are the Brennans
A Novel
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- 10,99 €
Publisher Description
**INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
In the vein of Mary Beth Keane’s Ask Again, Yes and Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's The Nest, Tracey Lange’s We Are the Brennans explores the staying power of shame—and the redemptive power of love—in an Irish Catholic family torn apart by secrets.
When twenty-nine-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and goes home to her family in New York. But it’s not easy. She deserted them all—and her high school sweetheart—five years before with little explanation, and they've got questions.
Sunday is determined to rebuild her life back on the east coast, even if it does mean tiptoeing around resentful brothers and an ex-fiancé. The longer she stays, however, the more she realizes they need her just as much as she needs them. When a dangerous man from her past brings her family’s pub business to the brink of financial ruin, the only way to protect them is to upend all their secrets—secrets that have damaged the family for generations and will threaten everything they know about their lives. In the aftermath, the Brennan family is forced to confront painful mistakes—and ultimately find a way forward, together.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Tracey Lange’s insightful debut novel explores the fascinating tensions that can upend even the closest family. Long estranged from her close-knit Irish Catholic family, 29-year-old Sunday Brennan is forced to move back in with her parents in the fictional town of West Manor, New York, after a drunk-driving accident in California. The clan’s black sheep quickly learns that her three brothers—and the high-school sweetheart she left behind—are grappling with major financial, medical, legal, and romantic problems of their own. Lange’s realistic, slice-of-life writing style makes this sprawling family’s complex web of dysfunction feel alternately hilarious and deeply uncomfortable. We Are the Brennans is a thoughtful rumination on how family relationships survive even in the messiest of times. By the time it was halfway over, we were already casting the movie version in our heads.