Luminous and devastating, a portrait of modern masculinity as
shaped by class, by trauma, and by silence, but also by the courage
to love and to survive Sean's brother Anthony is a hard man. When
they were kids their ma did her best to keep him out of trouble but
you can't say anything to Anto. Sean was supposed to be different.
He was supposed to leave and never come back. But Sean does come
back. Arriving home after university, he finds Anthony's drinking
is worse than ever. Meanwhile the jobs in Belfast have vanished,
Sean's degree isn't worth the paper it's written on and no one will
give him the time of day. One night he loses control and assaults a
stranger at a party, and everything is tipped into chaos. Close to
Home witnesses the aftermath of that night, as Sean attempts to
make sense of who he has become, and to reckon with the
relationships that have shaped him, for better and worse. Drawing
from his own experiences, Michael Magee examines the forces which
keep young working class men in harm's way, in a debut novel which
shines with intelligence and humanity on every page. Close to Home
is an extraordinary work of fiction about deciding what kind of a
man you want to be and finding your place in the scarred city you
call home.
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