When Enda’s husband dies, she makes a startling confession to the priest in her small Irish village. And this confession leads her—as the two sit beside the body of her husband—to tell the story of her life. To tell The All of It. As the priest listens to Enda’s tale, he begins to feel the loneliness, the absence, in his own existence.
Jeannette Haien’s slim novel (at 145 pages, you could easily read the entire book in one sitting) is a quiet, beautiful, lyrical meditation on life. Thanks, Ann Patchett, for the recommendation!
