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...What about Keelin...
...that the mother loved least. [Laughs] It's horrible, I know. I used to go to the funerals of great aunts, and people would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother, but the mother, she always preferred the boys. Keelin at the beginning of the book is very comfortable. She's leading a sort of asexual existence just having her odd joint sitting on the windowsill. She's solitary, and she's set to sit there and teach in the school she went to as a kid and just take...
...falls to Keelin to pursue Aisling who has been only a series of postcards from exotic places since she left home. The novel begins as a generational saga in Ireland, delineating a long and suitably gothic history. In this generation, as in many Irish families, all of the siblings except for Keelin leave Ireland completely. Finally leaving her boring Dublin lifestyle, Keelin stumbles into the elegant web of family and lovers that emerges in Aisling's wake. As Keelin follows her sister's path she finds herself intertwined not only with Aisling's exotic, erotic lifestyle but with her other...
...common past and by genetic inescapability symbolized by their individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex glove-wearing paranoid trapped in his own neurosis. Like Keelin, the fourth sister Orla seems to have...
...wild romp through dangerous and exciting places, the text subtly takes on the feeling of each different country. When Keelin wanders through the Tokyo night life the descriptions take on a hard, bright, almost neon like quality. As she sweats through sickness in Central America a fuzzy magic-realism pervades. New York and Las Vegas become the barren, American suburban talk-show circuit. Like the text, Keelin is subtly changed by each new location, making a journey that began as a quest for someone else her own. Even as she moves towards real independence, though, Keelin is snared...