{"product_id":"the-irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs-9781324117407","title":"The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother, and daughter, documenting a brush with an old flame or the devastating death of her sister in crystalline, precise sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe longer essays concern Fennelly's relationships--with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between five former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude portraits in Fennelly's town, for which she poses. Interspersed between these longer memoirs are sections of flash nonfiction, a form Fennelly innovated in the genre-defying \u003cem\u003eHeating \u0026amp; Cooling\u003c\/em\u003e. With dazzling verve and wit, they capture the interstitial interactions--encounters with strangers, quirky observations, unexpected flights of fancy--that make up a richly lived life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Irish Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rare pleasure: intimacy. With emotional clarity and nimble prose, Fennelly invites readers to share her affirming worldview--one in which even our smallest interactions are rife with possibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beth Ann Fennelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781324117407\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFennelly, Beth Ann:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eBeth Ann Fennelly\u003c\/strong\u003e, poet laureate of Mississippi from 2016 to 2021, is the author of six books, most recently, \u003cem\u003eHeating \u0026amp; Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives with her husband and their three children in Oxford, Mississippi.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Beth Ann Fennelly \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47699062194333,"sku":"9781324117407","price":39.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_e7013cab-6487-46f8-8f20-c9c33fcb59e1.jpg?v=1772697280","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs-9781324117407","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}