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Author: Louise Nealon

Category: Other2

Published: 2021

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"Mad and wonderful. I thought I was reading one thing, then discovered—several times—that I was reading a different, even better thing."—Roddy Doyle"Snowflake is a wonderfully inventive, deeply felt novel full of the best kinds of surprises."—Margot LiveseyAn exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting novel—a tale of love and family, depression and joy, and coming of age in the twenty-first century.Eighteen-year-old Debbie was raised on her family's rural dairy farm, forty minutes and a world away from Dublin. She lives with her mother, Maeve, a skittish woman who takes to her bed for days on end, claims not to know who Debbie's father is, and believes her dreams are prophecies. Rounding out their small family is Maeve's brother Billy, who lives in a caravan behind their house, drinks too much, and likes to impersonate famous dead writers...