In the nine captivating stories that make up 'The Empty Family', Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Tibn's stories manages to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.
A stellar collection from one of the greatest writers in the English language.
