{"title":"Elaine Feeney","description":"Elaine Feeney is an acclaimed novelist and poet from the west of Ireland. Her debut novel, As You Were, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the Irish Novel of the Year Award, and won the Kate O'Brien Award, the McKitterick Prize and the Dalkey Festival Emerging Writer Award. How to Build a Boat was also shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Feeney has published the poetry collections Where's Katie?, The Radio Was Gospel, Rise and All the Good Things You Deserve, and lectures at the University of Galway.","products":[{"product_id":"let-me-go-mad-in-my-own-way-paperback","title":"Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSunday Times Ireland\u003c\/em\u003e Preview Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Booker-nominated author of \u003cem\u003eHow to Build a Boat\u003c\/em\u003e returns to western Ireland with a multi-generational family story about grief, inheritance, and learning to live with the past--and with yourself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire O'Connor is a promising writer who left the family's struggling farmstead in western Ireland for London, swearing never to return. But after the unexpected death of her mother, she is racked with grief, and when her father is diagnosed with cancer, she decides to return home to care for him, destroying everything she'd so carefully built up in the process. The pandemic follows, and Claire falls into a comfortable routine, one increasingly shaped by a growing obsession: the lives of the 20-something trad wives she discovers on social media. When Tom, her lost London love, unexpectedly shows up the next town over, her anxieties and obsessions collide, the resulting conflict forcing Claire and her brothers to finally deal with their family's historic trauma--a trauma whose evidence is carved into the beams of the family home and the stone floors upon which their ancestors bled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRanging through recent Irish history, \u003cem\u003eLet Me Go Mad in My Own Way\u003c\/em\u003e is Elaine Feeney's most ambitious novel to date, a work of literary and cultural exorcism and a profound exploration of family, history, violence, and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102557049055,"sku":"9781771967044","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/E0NjY_aHSG9781771967044.webp?v=1781083481"},{"product_id":"how-to-build-a-boat-paperback","title":"How to Build a Boat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Booker Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e- \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- One of the \u003cem\u003eGlobe\u003c\/em\u003e 100's Best Books of 2023 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- A \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of certain objects, books with dust jackets, rivers, cats, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he wants most in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things are intimately linked, and at his new school, despite the daily barrage of bullies and cathedral bells, he meets two teachers who might be able to help him, though each struggles against inertias of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Build a Boat\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of how one boy's irrepressible dream finds expression through a community propelled by love out of grief. Lyrical and compassionate, it's a novel about the courage of conviction and the power of the imagination to transform-and how sometimes the best way to break free of old walls is to build something beautiful within them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104771772639,"sku":"9781771965859","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/F3NEqrBR1s9781771965859.webp?v=1781111285"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/elaine-feeney.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}