
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDNOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZENAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA stunning heartbreaking debut
- We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family & an epic of the American Century Eileen Leary wants more Raised in a downtrodden area of new York by hard-drinking Irish immigrant parents she dreams of another life a better job a bigger house more respectable friends a happy family When she meets Ed Leary a brilliant young scientist she thinks she's found the perfect partner to pursue & share her American Dream with An indefatigable love enters Eileen's life
- but so too does a pervasive darkness & a loss that will last a lifetime