{"id":149095,"date":"2021-10-10T20:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T00:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/149095"},"modified":"2021-10-11T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T20:16:03","slug":"the-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/149095","title":{"rendered":"The Gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this \u201cstunning\u201d novel by the award-winning author of Actress (The Washington Post). The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him\u2014something that happened in their grandmother\u2019s house in the winter of 1968. As prize-winning author Anne Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is an \u201cwonderfully elegant and unsparing\u201d epic of an Irish family (Los Angeles Times)\u2014a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. \u201cEntrancing…a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable.\u201d\u2014Entertainment Weekly \u201cA melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly.\u201d\u2014Publishers Weekly \u201cHer sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott\u2019s; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O\u2019Brien\u2019s. The Gathering is her best book.\u201d\u2014Colm Toibin \u201cHypnotic.\u201d\u2014Booklist (starred review)\r\n\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books\/previewlib.js\"><\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n          GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(\"2q7SDwAAQBAJ\", 500,400);\r\n          <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this \u201cstunning\u201d novel by the award-winning author of Actress (The Washington Post). The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/149095\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Gathering<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[696,16124,37641,43325,19,37603,37623,37732,37653,43323,37597,16121,37578,37730,43317,43324,37655,43326,40160,37606,37609,36857,37602,39792,37601,37604,37600,16120,37654,43327,43316,37598,37659,43312,37599,37638,34012,43330,43328,43329,23,41908,35568,38147,43243,33777,43321,43331,43314,43322,43315,37010,43319,43313,43318,43320],"class_list":["post-149095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-causes-and-prevention","tag-anxiety","tag-anxiety-and-depression","tag-anxiety-and-phobia-workbook","tag-anxiety-and-stress-relief-supplements","tag-anxiety-attack","tag-anxiety-attack-symptoms","tag-anxiety-attacks-symptoms","tag-anxiety-books","tag-anxiety-books-free","tag-anxiety-bracelet-for-women","tag-anxiety-definition","tag-anxiety-disorder","tag-anxiety-disorder-symptoms","tag-anxiety-dog-bed","tag-anxiety-during-coronavirus","tag-anxiety-essential-oils","tag-anxiety-games","tag-anxiety-in-relationship","tag-anxiety-journal","tag-anxiety-lyrics","tag-anxiety-meaning","tag-anxiety-medication","tag-anxiety-medications","tag-anxiety-meditation","tag-anxiety-meds","tag-anxiety-quiz","tag-anxiety-quotes","tag-anxiety-relief","tag-anxiety-relief-games","tag-anxiety-relief-items","tag-anxiety-song","tag-anxiety-symptoms","tag-anxiety-symptoms-in-women","tag-anxiety-synonym","tag-anxiety-test","tag-anxiety-workbook","tag-panic","tag-panic-at-the-disco-merchandise","tag-panic-at-the-disco-poster","tag-panic-at-the-disco-shirt","tag-panic-attack","tag-panic-attack-relief","tag-panic-attack-symptoms","tag-panic-attack-treatment","tag-panic-attack-vs-anxiety-attack","tag-panic-attacks","tag-panic-attacks-and-anxiety","tag-panic-attacks-and-anxiety-relief","tag-panic-attacks-symptoms","tag-panic-button","tag-panic-buying","tag-panic-disorder","tag-panic-disorder-symptoms","tag-panic-room","tag-panic-stream","tag-the-panic-room-got-cha-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149097,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149095\/revisions\/149097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}