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The Gathering by Anne Enright
In The Gathering, Veronica Hegarty is the seventh of twelve children in an Irish family, and she now lives a middle-class life with a husband and children. Her brother, Liam, drowns himself off the coast of Brighton, upsetting Veronica's world and beginning the gathering of the family as his body slows makes it way home from England. Veronica remembers the family struggles and drama, back to her grandparents' relationship, that formed the dysfunctional family that drove Liam to drink and finally take his life. It's a family rife with abuse, alcohol, secrets, and it all tends to draw Veronica back into the family she's thought she'd escaped. Anne Enright's novel has won the 2007 Man Booker Prize and has received positive reviews with The Scotsman saying, "You will love this book or loathe it. It doesn't take prisoners, it doesn't simper or seek to be liked. Abrasively honest and toweringly moving, it grabs and shakes you, rabbiting on in a manic monologue, comical, tragic, lost and profound."
