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Author Hughes, Caoilinn, 1985- author.

Title Orchid & the wasp : a novel / Caoilinn Hughes.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Hogarth, [2018].
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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F HUGHES, C.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION HUGHES    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F HUGHES    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  HUGHES, CAOILINN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  HUGHES, CAOILINN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC HUGHES, C    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F HUGHES, C.    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC HUGHES    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F HUGHES, CAOILINN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC HUGHES    Check Shelf

Edition First United States edition.
Description 345 pages ; 25 cm
Summary In this dazzlingly original debut novel, award-winning Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes introduces a heroine of mythic proportions in the form of one Gael Foess. A tough, thoughtful, and savvy opportunist, Gael is determined to live life on her own terms. Raised in Dublin by single-minded, careerist parents, Gael learns early how a person's ambitions and ideals can be compromised-- and she refuses to let her vulnerable, unwell younger brother, Guthrie, suffer such sacrifices. When Gael's financier father walks out on them during the economic crash of 2008, her family fractures. Her mother, a once-formidable orchestral conductor, becomes a shadow. And a fateful incident prevents Guthrie from finishing high school. Determined not to let her loved-ones fall victim to circumstance, Gael leaves Dublin for the coke-dusted social clubs of London and Manhattan's gallery scene, always working an angle, but beginning to become a stranger to those who love her. Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid & the Wasp is a novel about gigantic ambitions and hard-won truths, chewing through sexuality, class, and politics, and crackling with joyful, anarchic fury. It challenges bootstraps morality with questions of what we owe one another and what we earn. A first novel of astonishing talent, Orchid & the Wasp announces Caoilinn Hughes as one of the most exciting literary writers working today.
Subject Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Occupy movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Added Title Orchid and the wasp
ISBN 9781524761103 (hardcover)
1524761109 (hardcover)
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