A Man With One of Those Faces (Dublin Trilogy publication order, #1; Dublin Trilogy chronological order, #6)

by Caimh McDonnell

“I spend my days mostly surrounded by people who are, to put it in terms you’d understand, waiting for the very last train to Clarksville. Do you know what I’ve never heard any of them say ever? ‘It’s complicated.’ That’s because, when you look back at it, it almost never is. Nuclear physics is complicated. The middle east is complicated. Our lives? They’re actually pretty damn simple, we just somehow make them difficult for ourselves.