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Saoirse : a novel / Charleen Hurtubise.
Van Pelt Library PS3608.U785 S26 2026
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Hurtubise Saoirse
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hurtubise, Charleen, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women artists--Fiction.
- Women artists.
- Families--Fiction.
- Families.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Michigan--Fiction.
- Michigan.
- Ireland--Fiction.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- Novels.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Celadon Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- "For fans of Colm Tóibín and Claire Keegan, Saoirse is a propulsive story set in the US and Ireland about one woman and the lies she has told in order to survive. In the wilds of Donegal, Ireland, 1999, Saoirse is an artist living an idyllic life. Her handsome partner, Daithí, and two beautiful daughters are regular subjects for her work and are the continual source of her hope and inspiration. Each day, she pours her heart into her family, using her painting and sketching to express her love for them. But Saoirse is not entirely who she says she is. And when her Dublin exhibition wins a prestigious award, the unanticipated recognition that comes with it threatens to expose all she has had to do in order to escape her old life, bringing a decade's worth of buried memories to the surface. At the age of seventeen, Saoirse went on the run from her hometown in Michigan, booking a one-way ticket to Ireland and developing an entangled relationship with a young man along the way. As she leaned into her new identity, she hoped she'd made it to safety once and for all. But she can't outrun her past forever, and now that Saoirse's cherished world is put in peril, facing her painful childhood might prove to be her only salvation. Saoirse is an evocative, suspenseful, and inventive exploration of the intimate relationship between art and life and the lies we tell ourselves in the name of reinvention"-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of Nora Barry.
- ISBN:
- 9781250400642
- 1250400643
- OCLC:
- 1513899696
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