October's Modern Fiction Book Club at Fable

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

Join us for a stimulating conversation with your lovely book club host, Brendan, and other book lovers. Come for dinner or a natural wine, stay for the conversation and new friendships.

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.

Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit, twenty-two-year-old Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s home to find her voice as a writer and live a life of her choosing. Carmel, too, knows the magic of her Daddo’s poetry—and the broken promises within its verses. When Phil abandons the family, Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet” with the man whose desertion scars Carmel, her sister, and their cancer-ridden mother.

The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of women who contend with inheritances—of abandonment and of sustaining love that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope.

This book is available at Fable. From October 1-7th, a limited amount of books have been set aside for our book club registrants. Simply purchase your ticket, pop into the store and show your confirmation to a member of the team. Please note we only have a limited amount available - so first come, first serve!

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