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THE ALTERNATIVES - CAOILINN HUGHES GEBUNDEN

“A bold  beautiful  complex novel  and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She  too 
is an unstoppable force.” — New York Times Book Review   “A tale about sisterhood  a novel of
ideas  a chronicle of our collective follies  a requiem for our agonizing species  The
Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence 
compassion  and beauty.”  —Hernan Diaz  From the writer Anthony Doerr calls “a massive talent ”
the story of four brilliant Irish sisters  orphaned in childhood  who scramble to reconnect
when the oldest disappears into the Irish countryside  The Flattery sisters were plunged
prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their
thirties—all single  all with PhDs—they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly
foundering world. The four lead disparate  distanced lives  from classrooms in Connecticut to
ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill  until one day their oldest sister  a geologist
haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth’s future  abruptly vanishes from her work and
home. Together for the first time in years  the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in
search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found. Sheltered in a derelict bungalow  they reach
into their common past  confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Warm 
fiercely witty  and unexpectedly hopeful  The Alternatives is an unforgettable portrait of a
family perched on our collective precipice  told by one of Ireland’s most gifted storytellers.

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