Cover art for We Are Not Ourselves
Published
Fourth Estate, April 2015
ISBN
9780007548323
Format
Softcover, 640 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 4cm

We Are Not Ourselves

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD

NOMINATED FOR THE FOLIO PRIZE

NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES

A stunning, heartbreaking debut - `We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family and 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 and share her American Dream with. An indefatigable love enters Eileen's life - but so too does a pervasive darkness and a loss that will last a lifetime.

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