Ebook {Epub PDF} We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

 · Matthew Thomas’s devastating debut novel, “We Are Not Ourselves,” is a starkly honest, intimate family story with the power to rock you to your www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. Matthew Thomas was born and raised in New York City. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he has an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His New York Times-bestselling novel WE ARE NOT OURSELVES has been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and the John /5. Book Summary. Epic in scope, heroic in character, and masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a multigenerational portrait of the Irish American Leary family. Born in , Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an apartment where the mood swings between heartbreak and hilarity, depending on whether guests are over and how much alcohol has been .

Matthew Thomas's #1 international bestselling novel WE ARE NOT OURSELVES has been shortlisted for both the James Tait Black Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and the Folio Prize. It was named a Notable Book of by the New York Times. by. Matthew Thomas (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · 27, ratings · 3, reviews. Epic in scope, heroic in character, and masterful in prose, We Are Not Ourselves is a multigenerational portrait of the Irish American Leary family. Born in , Eileen Tumulty is raised by her Irish immigrant parents in Woodside, Queens, in an. "We Are Not Ourselves" is about life in full; i.e. not just coming of age, adulthood, or death but the complete cycle of life. Its author, Matthew Thomas, is in his thirties when the book is published. He said it took him ten years to write it.

In We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas has written a masterwork on both, as well as an anatomy of the American middle class in the 20th Century. It's all here: how we live, how we love, how we die, how we carry on. Shame is the deeply buried force that drives her. Although Matthew Thomas’s “We Are Not Ourselves” tells the story of three generations of an Irish-American family, the action is seen mainly. Matthew Thomas’s devastating debut novel, “We Are Not Ourselves,” is a starkly honest, intimate family story with the power to rock you to your core.