A searching, incisive, and profound debut collection of stories about peoplemothers, fathers, sons, strangers, sistersliving in the aftermath of violence.
What good is it to know what things are, what lies beneath the appearance of them? It is nothing until it is stated. It is nothing if it is not named. It is just blood, like you have never seen before.
A young man studying anatomy looks at a cadaver. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. A mother dies, leaving a stain on the carpet: whether or not anyone acknowledges it, they know its there.
The searching and clear-eyed stories inEvery One Still Hereare set in Ireland under British occupation, a place where the past, grief, and guilt thrum behind every surface and refuse to stay buried. Liadan N? Chuinn is a debut writer of uncommon power, clarity, and precision, whose characters inEvery One Still Herestay lodged within us long after we leave them.
Liadan N? Chuinnis a writer from the north of Ireland. Their writing has been published in
The Stinging Flyand
Granta.
Every One Still Hereis their first book.
Early Praise forEvery One Still Here
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This is a brilliant and remarkable book, a collection of six short stories by a debut writer that immediately asks to be considered among this islands signal 21st-century literary achievements. These stories open out and close again in strange folds and planes. They operate like some theoretical shape in geometry that has more surfaces than are physically possible . . . Superb.
Kevin Power,The Irish Times
Astonishing . . . The writing here is stark, unflinching, bald. It feels genuinely new. I get the feeling that N? Chuinn would hate the term voice of a generation, but it may be foisted on them nonethelessand with good reason.
Laura Hackett,The Sunday Times
N? Chuinns writing is often terse, bllc
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