{"product_id":"irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs","title":"Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs","description":"\u003ch1\u003eIrish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs\u003c\/h1\u003eBeth Ann Fennelly,Beth Ann Fennelly\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 24 2026\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781324117407\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1324117400\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn from an ordinary life observed with extraordinary skill? In \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e, Beth Ann Fennelly writes of the small moments that shape a life, whether moving or perplexing or troubling or gladdening, in the process dignifying the diminutive through the act of attention. Fennelly explores her roles as a friend, wife, mother, and daughter, documenting a brush with an old flame or the devastating death of her sister in crystalline, precise sentences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe longer essays concern Fennelly's relationships--with a beloved mother-in-law, a decades-long friendship between five former college roommates, an artist who paints a series of nude portraits in Fennelly's town, for which she poses. Interspersed between these longer memoirs are sections of flash nonfiction, a form Fennelly innovated in the genre-defying \u003cem\u003eHeating \u0026amp; Cooling\u003c\/em\u003e. With dazzling verve and wit, they capture the interstitial interactions--encounters with strangers, quirky observations, unexpected flights of fancy--that make up a richly lived life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Irish Goodbye\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rare pleasure: intimacy. With emotional clarity and nimble prose, Fennelly invites readers to share her affirming worldview--one in which even our smallest interactions are rife with possibility.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67391688572973,"sku":"WHS-4137206d85fa4a79bc7d7b5eef53078c","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_aca45254-dd16-4d2f-8f96-98c393b8a9f5.jpg?v=1787356531","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/irish-goodbye-micro-memoirs","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}