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Gets 3 stars for the writing but zero for story.This book started with a dysfunctional family (The Madigans) and ended the same way. Nothing resolved, nothing learned. One reviewer suggested you might need to be Irish to understand it, well that didn't work for me. The first chapter sets the scene with a mother Rosaleen who takes to her room every time there is a family crises. Everyone carries on as if this is normal behaviour. Each chapter is about a different family member. Of course a chapter about Hanna's life in 1980 has no connection to Dan's life in 2005 as it would appear none of these siblings have been in touch with each other for the last 25 years. The reader is suddenly in a different era with no real explanation as to what happened to the character in the intervening time to explain their current status. Too much irrelevant background story, the chapter about Emmet focused more on his girlfriend's dog than on him, a detailed account of Constance's trip to the supermarket on Christmas Eve and what she purchased. There was a particularly long and detailed account of the AIDS crises and the gay community in the US in the 80s with hardly any focus on the Madigan character. Learned very little about each character as the book progressed other than they all appeared to have problems and were emotionally disabled. Do any of us come from a perfect family? We all blame our parents for some issue we have but I thought as these children left home they might just grow up, put the past behind them and get on with life. It's not as though they were abused or crippled by poverty or had some major trauma. I found it difficult to like or care for any of them. The father (Pat I think) died somewhere along the line so we don't learn much about him. Not sure whether Rosaleen loved him so much that she didn't have much love left for her children or if it was an unhappy marriage. From the first chapter I got the impression he was weak and never challenged his wife's behaviour. I'm assuming she behaved this way all the time but maybe not, we just get a snapshot of her in 1980 and then nothing until 2005 so difficult to judge. To sum this book up I'd say it's about a family who do not communicate with each other on any level. I had just hope there'd be some breakthrough by the end but unfortunately the theme was unchanged throughout.


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The Green Road A Novel Anne Enright 9780393248210 Books Reviews

Maybe you have to be Irish to enjoy wallowing in despair. I finished the book so that I could figure out why I wasn't enjoying it and could not relate to any of the characters. Right from the beginning, one can easily dislike Rosaleen, a real whiner, manipulator, and controller. With a mother like that, the children are generally doomed unless they are very strong. And what do we end up with? A fallen 'priest', a deluded do-gooder who cannot relate to women honestly, an alcoholic sometime actress, and a pathetic pushover, guilt-ridden and ready to destroy her own life rather than say "no" when needed. The story is told from the point of view of each character, and I couldn't help but feel that author Enright had issues with the topics that each of them represented, from t he priesthood to HIV/AIDS,and alcoholism. Putting them all under one roof for a memorable Christmas dinner was inviting disaster. Rosaleen's Last Stand, running away from home complete with a ghostly visit from the sainted late husband is almost comical.
No doubt that Enright can write, even though she hops from person to person, leaving many unresolved issues. It made me, as a reader, feel I was bing set up for a sequel. However, I don't care enough about any of the characters to want to suffer through any more Irish angst with them. Not every novel has to be upbeat and cheerful to be successful, but a resolution of sorts makes it worth while. Strong, interesting characters who wake up and smell the cappucino rather than lie down and drown in it are infinitely more challenging. , A good novel in my opinion, takes me to places I haven't been or places I have visited and enjoy seeing again, and introduces me to people I don't know. However, this wasn't my novel to write nor are they my characters to rewrite - I just couldn't recommend this book as being any better than "Just all right". I haven't been to Ireland and this novel didn't give me a feeling for the country. I doubt very much that any member of the Madigan family will be on my guest list soon.
We meet the Madigan family first through mam's eyes. Rosaleen was writing Christmas cards to her children, and we learn she drove them all away, and now she wants them back. And, so the story goes, we meet each of the children and their story.

County Clare, in the 1980's, Rosaleen, her husband who loved her so well, Constance, Dan, Emmet, and Hanna. A hard working life, not terribly difficult, but everyone pitched in. We meet Dan who tells the family he is going to be a priest, and he then ends up in New York City,with a totally different life. Constance stays on in the County, marries a well if man and gas two wonderful children. Emmet, an aide worker in Mali, he has women but finds he cannot fall in love. And, Hanba, wanting to be an actress. But finds herself pregnant and the end of her dreams. As we hear their stories in the late 1990's, we learn if their hopes, dreams and disappointments.

They al, receive the Christmas card asking them to come home. Rosaleen has something to tell them. As they left, they all arrive with hesitation and a tense feeling. They are all seemingly damaged, and how they respond to Rosaleen and each other is the stories if the Irish. Can they make sense if their lives, that is the question.

Anne Enright's is such marvelous writer, we can see in her words and hear in the prose the details we thought we missed. I go back to reread that sentence that tells me everything I need to know. It is the details that bring the people and the country to life. A marvelous simple plot that brings the going and coming to the fore.

Highly Recommended. prisrob 05-02-16
Gets 3 stars for the writing but zero for story.This book started with a dysfunctional family (The Madigans) and ended the same way. Nothing resolved, nothing learned. One reviewer suggested you might need to be Irish to understand it, well that didn't work for me. The first chapter sets the scene with a mother Rosaleen who takes to her room every time there is a family crises. Everyone carries on as if this is normal behaviour. Each chapter is about a different family member. Of course a chapter about Hanna's life in 1980 has no connection to Dan's life in 2005 as it would appear none of these siblings have been in touch with each other for the last 25 years. The reader is suddenly in a different era with no real explanation as to what happened to the character in the intervening time to explain their current status. Too much irrelevant background story, the chapter about Emmet focused more on his girlfriend's dog than on him, a detailed account of Constance's trip to the supermarket on Christmas Eve and what she purchased. There was a particularly long and detailed account of the AIDS crises and the gay community in the US in the 80s with hardly any focus on the Madigan character. Learned very little about each character as the book progressed other than they all appeared to have problems and were emotionally disabled. Do any of us come from a perfect family? We all blame our parents for some issue we have but I thought as these children left home they might just grow up, put the past behind them and get on with life. It's not as though they were abused or crippled by poverty or had some major trauma. I found it difficult to like or care for any of them. The father (Pat I think) died somewhere along the line so we don't learn much about him. Not sure whether Rosaleen loved him so much that she didn't have much love left for her children or if it was an unhappy marriage. From the first chapter I got the impression he was weak and never challenged his wife's behaviour. I'm assuming she behaved this way all the time but maybe not, we just get a snapshot of her in 1980 and then nothing until 2005 so difficult to judge. To sum this book up I'd say it's about a family who do not communicate with each other on any level. I had just hope there'd be some breakthrough by the end but unfortunately the theme was unchanged throughout.