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Colm toibin the blackwater lightship7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() Surprised, because she was unaware that he was even gay. Helen, the principal character, is surprised to hear that her younger brother, Declan, is dying of AIDs. A sparsely written and deeply unfunny novel told in Toibin’s signature style. It’s a story about dying, about bringing together an estranged family through pain, but it’s the silences that drew me in, kept me near the rural scenery of Wexford and the modern spirit of Dublin. This quiet novel was the perfect companion, for it allows you to listen to the sounds of the countryside, the buzzing of insects, the crashing of waves. Winter hadn’t yet arrived and the leaves outside bobbed gently in a light breeze. I read Colm Toibin’s The Blackwater Lightship by the window of my Brooklyn apartment during a calm and lukewarm afternoon. ![]()
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