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LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A stunning, heartbreaking debut - 'We Are Not Ourselves' is both the intimate story of a family and an epic of the American Century. Raised in the 1940s in the mostly Irish neighbourhood of Jackson Heights, Queens, by an alcoholic mother and a union-wage father, Eileen yearns for more from an early age. Driven by this longing, she places her stock and love in a handsome young scientist and with him begins a family. Once her childhood neighbourhood begins to slip below her standards, she pushes against her husband's reluctance to find a home elsewhere. When it becomes clear that his reticence is part of a deeper, more incomprehensible psychological shift, the bricks of the life she thought she was building begin to crumble, and she and her son are left to grapple with a husband and a father who is, beyond their control, fading away. In this heartbreaking debut, Thomas masterfully paints the sprawling portrait of a family that heroically weathers an extraordinary storm. It is wise to the ways in which people happen, over time and with each other.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: We Are Not Ourselves
• Author: Matthew Thomas
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640
• EAN: 9780007548323
• ISBN: 000754832X
• ID: 04858306
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 131 × 198 × 45 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2015

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