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NOVEMBER BUDDY READ
TRESPASSES by Louise Kennedy
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and a dangerous passion.
Amid daily reports of violence, Cushla lives a quiet life with her mother in a small town near Belfast. By day she teaches at a parochial school; at night she fills in at her family's pub. There she meets Michael Agnew, a barrister who's made a name for himself defending IRA members. Against her better judgment - Michael is not only Protestant but older, and married - Cushla lets herself get drawn in by him and his sophisticated world, and an affair ignites. Then the father of a student is savagely beaten, setting in motion a chain reaction that will threaten everything, and everyone, Cushla most wants to protect.
As tender as it is unflinching, Trespasses is a heart-pounding, heart-rending drama of thwarted love and irreconcilable loyalties, in a place what you come from seems to count more than what you do, or whom you cherish.
*Description from Goodreads
Genre: Historical Fiction
Content Warnings: Alcoholism, Grief, Religious Bigotry, War, Addiction, Child Abuse, Miscarriage, Medical Trauma
Reading Breakdown
Discord channels are organized by part to minimize spoilers and keep the chat going while reading.
1 - Beginning to Chiarocuro
2 - Chapter 13 to When I Move the Sky
3 - Chapter 25 to End
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