A ferocious sendup of a self-satisfied Irish poet and a brilliantly honest portrait of the women he leaves behind
nne Enright is one of our acutest chroniclers of relational complexity, whether she’s skewering filial pieties in The Wig My Father Wore , staging a tragicomedy of intergenerational fallout in the Booker-winningIn her eighth novel, Enright again gives us a portrait of a uniquely unhappy family. Intimate and ambiguous, refusing to settle anywhere for long, The Wren, The Wren is told in three voices.
The most tender of all is a poem called The Wren, The Wren. Dedicated to Carmel, the daughter Phil abandoned, it gestures at her birdlike vulnerability and his own “earthbound heart” – now “of her love’s weight / relieved”. On Carmel’s 16th birthday, philandering Phil sends her a letter urging her to turn her “infinite gaze to the masters of the Uffizi”. The consolations of art, indeed.
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