`Written with all the ingenuity and twisty tautness of a thriller¿ The TimesFrom the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughter¿s search to understand her mother¿s hidden truths....

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers "The Gathering," a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish...