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The Irish goodbye : micro-memoirs / Beth Ann Fennelly.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.E489 I75 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fennelly, Beth Ann, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fennelly, Beth Ann, 1971-.
- Fennelly, Beth Ann.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Families--United States--Personal narratives.
- Families.
- Marriage--United States--Personal narratives.
- Marriage.
- Motherhood--United States--Personal narratives.
- Motherhood.
- Friendship--United States--Personal narratives.
- Friendship.
- Grief--Personal narratives.
- Grief.
- Women authors, American--Personal narratives.
- Women authors, American.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies
- Biographies.
- Essays.
- Autobiographies.
- Memoirs.
- Creative nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- 133 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2026]
- Summary:
- A collection of essays and short nonfiction pieces reflecting on family life, relationships, and personal experience. The work includes longer essays and brief reflective texts that explore themes such as friendship, marriage, motherhood, grief, and everyday encounters. Through observational writing, the author examines ordinary moments and personal history, including relationships with family members and friends, as well as experiences within a small community. The volume blends memoir and flash nonfiction forms.
- Contents:
- Married love : playing the long game
- Lori Cornelius
- Two sisters, one thinner, one better dressed
- The stories we tell about the stories we tell
- Tree pose
- Married love : missing him
- Character witness
- Birthday
- Number one sign you shouldn't send that letter
- Dad gave us twenty dollars, which was a lot in 1979
- Two sisters, one fast, one slow
- My mother-in-law in the mirror
- Prepping to teach O'Connor while visiting my mother-in-law
- Two sisters, one slicing the cake, one choosing first
- Being sensitive about being sensitive
- Strangers with good taste, that is
- My sister used to give me blank journals for my birthday
- Only the basement
- Flughafen Tempelof
- Me vs. slugs : pandemic edition
- This little trick I play on myself
- Married love : Rolf und Helga
- The hug
- Lullaby
- Fennessy
- While you were out
- The Irish goodbye
- A scrap of paper that says remember
- Married love : twenty-fifth anniversary
- It is hard when your job is hard but doesn't appear to be so
- The trespass
- A woman's head is not the safest place to be
- Elegy
- Related searches
- Beacuse my editor suggests I reveal how my sister died
- The roomies
- Your mother falls again and breaks her other hip
- INheritance
- Married love : because I've been French kissing him for twenty-nine years
- What I think about when someone says they're estranged from their sibling
- Most days are days like this
- Making plans with friends
- Married love : addendum to "Making plans with friends"
- Dear viewer of my naked body.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781324117407
- 1324117400
- OCLC:
- 1519446047
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000330013
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