cover blurb - Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a thousand years. Electricity is coming and the rain seems to stop.
Noel Crowe is seventeen, restless, and a bit excited when Christy comes to Faha. He has secrets and a past love here in Faha. Meanwhile, Noel falls in and out of love with three sisters - all out of his league.
cover blurb - Niall Williams gives us a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - with a tender coming of age story.
I enjoyed the writing - Williams' Irish lilt and his meandering ways all lend a charm. Not a lot really happens and that's okay. It's just the journey and time spent in town - the gossip, the silences, the "scandal", and the time going to church, discussing church, avoiding church, and hoping the rains come again. That is happiness.
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