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On class :

“Does Bridget cut her carrots in strips or circles?”

“Strips.”

On class:

“after I moved to London, I found that my accent, my good manners and my vague ability to reference Trollope build a picture for my English peers that became more than the sum of its parts.”

“You have one of the nice Irish voices.” “Soft.”

“Hearing ‘Homer’ and knowing someone doesn’t mean ‘Simpson’.

“ He would prefer Deenie to think that was a sociopath, acquiring jobs for his girlfriend with his wife, rather than be correctly identified as queer.”

How does Caroline make me laugh 😂 in one moment then in another, feel profound sadness. Brilliant writing is all I can say. I wanna read this book 📕 walking down the street today but I don’t want to kill myself. Haha 😆

“The days are long but the years are short.”

Pg 113 Rachel on her time living on Shandon street“ …It detached me from any kind of inherited moral system. I stopped sizing others up in accordance with the values I had been taught: who was a loser, who was closeted, who was cheating on their wife. I learned the value of context, and of people….”

Themes:

Friendship, infidelity, LGBTQ, Expats, Irish life and culture, literature, book publishing.

Setting: Cork, Ireland

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Main characters: Rachel, Dr. Byrne, James Devlin.

When we meet Rachel, she’s pregnant and working for a newspaper. She tells us be a first person of her college years and how she met James.

“I’m the writer, the foreigner, the whore-the free woman,” I’m not the “good woman” whom one possesses and displays, the one who gives consolation. I can’t console anyone.”

Love Rachel and James so far! So funny 😆