Snowflake - by Louise Nealon (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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 online. Though they may have their quirks, the Whites' fierce love for one another is never in doubt. But Debbie's life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve's fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family's equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose."--Publisher's description.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>An endearingly off-kilter coming-of-age story. . . . Debbie will win your heart. --<em>People, </em> The Best New Books</strong></p><p><strong>One of Shondaland's 5 Best Books of September and Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of the Month</strong></p><p><strong>An 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.</strong></p><p>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 online. Though they may have their quirks, the Whites' fierce love for one another is never in doubt.</p><p>But Debbie's life is changing. Earning a place at Trinity College Dublin, she commutes to her classes a few days a week. Outside the sheltered bubble of her childhood for the first time, Debbie finds herself both overwhelmed and disappointed by her fellow students and the pace and anonymity of city life. While the familiarity of the farm offers comfort, Debbie still finds herself pulling away from it. Yet just as she begins to ponder the possibilities the future holds, a resurgence of strange dreams raises her fears that she may share Maeve's fate. Then a tragic accident upends the family's equilibrium, and Debbie discovers her next steps may no longer be hers to choose.</p><p>Gorgeous and beautifully wrought, <em>Snowflake </em>is an affecting coming-of-age story about a young woman learning to navigate a world that constantly challenges her sense of self. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Reminds the reader of James Joyce's most brilliant short story 'The Dead.' Like Joyce's story, Nealon's <em>Snowflake</em> is about compassion and acceptance, about the difficulty in aligning one's dreams with reality. Nealon navigates that territory well, making the reader empathize with her damaged characters, allowing an understanding of depression and its consequences, and fashioning out of eccentrics and outcasts a company of ordinary heroes.--<strong><em>New York Journal of Books</em></strong><br><br>"A lithe and limber debut. . . . the reader who, like Debbie, allows herself to be carried along by the swift and unexpected world of <em>Snowflake</em> will be rewarded in the end."--<strong><em>Chicago Review of Books</em></strong><br><br>"A vivid tale of courage and discovery, of engaging with a world that contains so many interpersonal traps, so many sources of shame, guilt, and self-deception. . . . The jokey give-and-take of the craic--and there is plenty of it--lightens the book's serious subject matter. . . . Nealon keeps us laughing to soften the rawness. And as all is filtered through Debbie's sharp consciousness, we come to appreciate the protagonist's fierce curiosity about how to guide oneself to live in the world."--<strong><em>Minneapolis Star-Tribune</em></strong><br><br>Nealon's razor-sharp focus on the shame surrounding mental health issues, sexual promiscuity and substance abuse in Irish culture -- and her female characters' determination to not only face but conquer their shortcomings . . . makes an indelible mark.--<strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong><br><br>"In an entirely unique, dark, and hilariously human novel, Nealon manages to weave the pressure of youth with the hopeful reality of unconditional love."--<strong><em>Shondaland</em></strong><br><br>"An accomplished debut novel. . . . One of newcomer Louise Nealon's many skills is in finding the tenderness lurking underneath everyday exchanges in a captivating story about a smart working-class country girl who is trying to adjust to Trinity College and its privileged social set. . . . Made me laugh out loud and cringe simultaneously. . . . the book has the power to make you gasp at its revelations and its sheer poetry, which often unfolds with the languid pace of a lucid dream. There hasn't been a book quite like it out of Ireland in years."--<strong><em>Irish Central</em></strong><br><br>"Beautifully written . . . . emotionally intelligent and thought-provoking. . . . I can't stop thinking about it."--<strong><em>Daily Mail</em></strong><br><br>"What are they putting in kids' milk in Ireland? <em>Snowflake</em> marks the arrival of yet another striking Irish literary voice. . . . But Debbie's fresh, bleakly funny voice marks her out as original. So are her brilliant, brittle family. . . . Screen rights have been bought by the team that adapted the hit TV series of <em>Normal People</em>."--<strong>Sunday <em>Times</em></strong><br><br>"Will inevitably gather comparisons with Sally Rooney. But Nealon has her own voice. Her writing is clever, witty, wryly elegant and full of emotional truth."--<strong>The Irish <em>Independent</em></strong><br><br>"A fresh and often humorous debut. . . . this tale of two worlds vibrates on an otherworldly frequency."--<strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong><br>
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