Mary Gordon

Elizabeth Cullinan's recently reissued collection paints a messy, rich, and tragic portrait of Irish-American womanhood.

“So, the reason I love her so much, Billie, is that she knows, she knows everything, she knows about love, and she knows about hate, and she sees everything.”

“Ethical decisions like those surrounding abortion can only be made in the light of experience; to assume the opposite is its own kind of distortion.”

“The country of my parents’ romance was located in the territory whose borders were Rome to the East and Hollywood to the West.”