January 28, 2011

Books

At the Crossroads

Who Occupies This HouseKathleen HillTriquarterly, $26.95, 272 pp.

Peter Quinn

Kathleen Hill’s novel Who Occupies This House is an intergenerational saga that traces the material progress and emotional travails of an Irish-Catholic family from Famine Ireland to the present-day suburbs of New York City. Richly nuanced, eloquently insightful, and elegantly crafted, Who Occupies This House is rooted in the particularities of Irish immigration and assimilat (...)


 

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