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Destined to be a classic, this "powerfully moving" (Chad Harbach, The Skill of Fielding) multigenerational debut book of the Irish-American family is nothing short of a "masterwork". (Joshua Ferris, Then We Found the End). Blessed in 1941, Eileen Tumulty is brought up by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, within an apartment where in fact the spirits swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much liquor has been consumed. When Eileen fits Ed Leary, a scientist whose bearing is nothing beats those of the men she was raised with, she considers she's found the perfect partner to deliver her to the cosmopolitan world she longs to inhabit. They marry, and Eileen quickly discovers Ed doesn't aspire to the same, ever before bigger, stakes in the North american Dream. Eileen encourages her spouse to want more: an improved job, better friends, an improved house, but as years go away it becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of an deeper psychological change. An inescapable darkness enters their lives, and Eileen and Ed and their child, Connell, try desperately to hold mutually a semblance of the truth they have known, and to preserve, against long odds, an idea they have cherished of the future. Through the Learys, novelist Matthew Thomas charts the storyline of the North american Century, specially the promise of local bliss and economical wealth that captured hearts and imagination after WWII. The effect is a riveting and impacting masterpiece of design; the one that reminds us that life is greater than a tally of victories and defeats, that people live to love and be loved, and that people should tell each other so prior to the minute slips away. Epic in opportunity, heroic in persona, masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves heralds the entrance of a significant new talent in modern day fiction.
