All we shall know
(2017, original release: 2016)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
FICTION/RYAN,D

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Fiction FICTION/RYAN,D Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017
DESCRIPTION

180 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780143131045, 0143131044 :, 9780143131045 (paperback), 0143131044 (paperback)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A breathtaking and redemptive novel from the award-winning and Man Bookernominated author Donal Ryan Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. At 33 years-old, she finds herself pregnantwith the child of a 17 year-old Traveller boy, Martin Toppy, and not by herhusband Pat. Melody was teaching Martin to read, but now he's gone, and Patleaves too, full of rage. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future islooming, while the past won't let her go. It's a good thing that she meets MaryCrothery when she does. Mary is a bold young Traveller woman, and she knowsmore about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody's life. Following the nine months of her pregnancy, All We Shall Know unfolds with emotional immediacy in Melody's fierce, funny, and unforgettable voice, as she contends with her choices, past and present"--