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Anne Enright

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Michael Silverblatt

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The Gathering (Grove)

In Anne Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel about a family wake, the narrator remembers, lies, invents and imagines with equal ardor. Here, fictions have as much weight as facts. In this conversation, we learn that the lies the character tells are windows into the truth of her inner life.

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Anne Enright: Irish author

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