Kevin Barry. Read Him.

Kevin Barry, photo © Hugh O'Conor Two books positively straining at their bindings are in your local bookstore right now; pick them up, and you'll be glad you did. One is a novel, and the other is a collection of stories newly published in America by Graywolf Press. The collection, Dark Lies the Island, is remarkable, but for today I'd like to introduce you to the novel. The author of all is Kevin Barry, and the novel is City of Bohane. Barry's first novel, City of Bohane was published in Europ...