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Claire Keegan: Small Things Like These (2021, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated) 5 stars

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize

"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, …

Dropped into daily life

4 stars

A couple days of an Irish coal delivery man. This is like an extended short-story, a couple hours read time, but lively and earnest. Although it doesn't go into them, look up the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland before you read; I'm sure the tension I felt was designed.