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Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thin Places about?
An Indie Next Selection for April 2022An Indies Introduce Selection for Winter/Spring 2022A Junior Library Guild SelectionBoth a celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of "two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose" (The Guardian).Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town—although for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like...
Who reads Thin Places?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kerri ní Dochartaigh
- Publisher
- Milkweed Editions
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 2.68 / 5 (27 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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