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The Irish Goodbye

by Heather Aimee O'Neill

A family reunion shaped by secrets and old ties

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A family reunion shaped by secrets and old ties

The Ryan sisters’ return to their Long Island family home brings three very different adult lives into the same room: Cait’s unresolved guilt over a fatal accident, Alice’s uncertain career and marriage, and Maggie’s decision to introduce her partner to their devoutly Catholic mother. The shared past is not confined to memory; a dinner guest connected to it brings buried tensions into the present. Family bonds, grief, forgiveness, and the difficulty of reconnecting after years apart frame this story of siblings negotiating what they owe one another and what they can reveal.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in stories about adult siblings and complicated family relationships.
  • Readers drawn to family dramas involving secrets, grief, and reconciliation.
  • Readers interested in Irish American family life and LGBTQ+ relationships.

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Sibling relationshipsFamily secretsGrief and guiltForgivenessLGBTQ+ relationships

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A #ReadWithJenna book club pick following an Irish American family with three adult sisters returning home to Long Island to face tension-filled dinners, ghosts from their pasts, and family secrets in a gripping novel full of biting wit and profound heart

It's been years since the three Ryan sisters were all together at their beloved family home. Two decades ago, their lives were upended by a fatal accident on their brother Topher's boat. Now the Ryan women are back and eager to reconnect, but each carries a heavy secret. The eldest, Cait, still holding guilt for the role no one knows she played in the boat accident, rekindles a flame with her high school crush. Middle sister Alice has been thrown a curveball that threatens the career she's restarting and faces a difficult decision that may doom her marriage. And the youngest, Maggie, is finally taking the risk of bringing the woman she loves home to meet her devoutly Catholic mother.

When Cait invites a guest from their shared past to dinner, old tensions boil over and new truths surface, nearly overpowering the flickering light of their family bond. Far more than a family reunion will be ruined unless the sisters can find a way to forgive one another--and themselves.

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