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New York Times Notable Books of Washington Post Top Fiction List for Entertainment Weekly Ten Best Fiction Books of Esquire Most Important Books of Publishers Weekly Best Books of One of Janet Maslins Ten Favorite Books of the Year in The New York Times The instant New York Times bestseller the Washington Post calls a stunningsuperbly rendered novel and Entertainment Weekly describes as a gripping family saga maybe the bestsince The CorrectionsBorn in Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside Queens in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity depending on how much alcohol has been consumed From an early age Eileen wished that she lived somewhere else She sets her sights on upper class Bronxville New York and an American Dream is born Driven by this longing Eileen places her stock and love in Ed Leary a handsome young scientist and with him begins a family Over the years Eileen encourages her husband to want more a better job better friends a better house It slowly becomes clear that his growing reluctance is part of a deeper more incomprehensive psychological shift An inescapable darkness enters their lives and Eileen and Ed and their son Connell try desperately to hold together a semblance of the reality they have known and to preserve against long odds an idea they have cherished of the future Described by The New York Times Book Review as A long gorgeous epic full of love and caringone of the best novels youll read this year We Are Not Ourselves is a testament to our greatest desires and our greatest frailties Through the lives of these characters Thomas charts the story of the American Century The result is stunningThe joys of this book are the joys of any classic work of literaturefor that is what this is destined to becomesuperbly rendered small moments that capture both an individual life and the universality of that persons experience The Washington Post.



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