Milkman

took me three years to read but it was worth it. what a beautiful and clever analysis of those times and places where the personal clashes with the political (well, it always does) and history and histories are changed forever. how to write politics without writing non fiction, that is something that Anna Burns does really well. it's a wonderfully written story (for me, at least, I understand that many people aren't fans of the obsessive stream of consciousness, but I love it) story about the many lives that occur while your country and your own life might be ending at any time.