We Are Not Ourselves

A long gorgeous epic, full of love and life and caring one of the best novels you'll read this year' New York Times 'It's all here: how we live, how we love, how we die, how we carry on. It's humbling and heartening to read a book this good' Joshua Ferris Eileen Leary wants more. Raised in a downtrodden area of new York by hard-drinking, Irish immigrant parents, she dreams of another life: a better job, a bigger house, more respectable friends, a happy family. When she meets Ed Leary, a brilliant young scientist, she thinks she's found the perfect partner to pursue and share her American Dream with. An indefatigable love enters Eileen's life - but so too does a pervasive darkness and a loss that will last a lifetime.