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You know what. If there are any big bad secrets in my family's history, I don't wanna know. Keep that shit hidden and let me go to my grave in ignorant bliss.
Maggie O'Farrell really has a way of putting you right into the emotional midst of a family, so that by the end of this book, I was almost wanting to ask my dad if he's sure there's no Irish ancestry on his side of the family. (There definitely isn't any on my mom's side--not a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish families emigrating from Ireland.) I lo ...more
Maggie O'Farrell really has a way of putting you right into the emotional midst of a family, so that by the end of this book, I was almost wanting to ask my dad if he's sure there's no Irish ancestry on his side of the family. (There definitely isn't any on my mom's side--not a lot of Ashkenazi Jewish families emigrating from Ireland.) I lo ...more
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