Description
In a quiet Irish landscape, Johnsey Cunliffe—gentle, bewildered, and living on a family farm with his widowed mother—tries to navigate a life shaped by small humiliations and stubborn hopes. As the year turns, he works, waits, and wanders through routines that should be ordinary, yet become charged with longing: the warmth of a bakery, the steady familiarity of faces, and the ache of being underestimated by those around him. Told with Donal Ryan’s distinctive compassion and Celia Filipetto’s lyrical sensibility, the story follows Johnsey’s year-long effort to understand himself and the people who judge him, moving between humor, tenderness, and painful self-doubt. At its heart, it’s a novel about belonging, dignity, and the ways time—especially in December—can feel both merciful and unforgiving.
Available Editions
paperback
Steerforth
Published Aug 26, 2014
209 pages
ISBN: 9781586422295
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Details
First Published
2013
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Thing About December by Donal Ryan.