Word: emer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EMER MARIN...
...Emer Martin (EM): When I was growing up my mother always told a story. She came from a small town in Ireland...and there were people that lived opposite that had a mad daughter, and they always kept her locked upstairs to they only ever saw this face in the window. Rumor had it if you went to the family and were in their living room, that she would appear at the top of the stairs and shout "More bread or I'll appear," and they'd run up and feed her rather than have her come down and embarrass...
...Emer Martin...
...super-modern odyssey spanning continents and styles, Emer Martin's More Bread or I'll Appear is surprisingly entangled with the traditional theme of family. Beginning in Martin's native Ireland, the story traces one sister's search for her family's eldest and most beloved sister. The absent sister, Aisling, reigns as a ghost-like presence throughout the book, seducing the rest of the characters with her unfetteredness even as she binds them together. Although the story ranges from the seedy underworld of Tokyo to the hot sands of Cuba, these bonds of family are the center of Martins...
...Emer Martin's second book is a mesmerizing mosaic of places, characters and feeling. Reading almost as a guide book to the modern scattered human soul, More Bread or I'll Appear is both beautiful and terrible. Though she has been compared to Henry Miller and Irvine Welsh, to me Emer Martin sings completely unique modern saga...