THE EMPTY FAMILY, COLM TÓIBÍN.
...From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Tóibíns stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.
Soft cover, 214 pages, in good condition. Penguin, 2011.