We Are Not Ourselves: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 147675666X
- ISBN-13
- 9781476756660
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 620
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-08-19
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Matthew Thomas
Description
Raised by her Irish immigrant parents in a 1940s Queens apartment where alcohol and company combine in mercurial ways, Eileen marries an unambitious scientist with whom she endures an increasingly psychologically dark family life. A first novel.
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