![]() ![]() In The Ginger Rogers Sermon, from her first, Antarctica (1999), the protagonist describes the trivial secrets they all keep from one another: “That’s the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don’t.” If you started, you would say the wrong things and you wouldn’t want it to end that way,” we learn of the protagonist in The Parting Gift, from Keegan’s second collection, Walk the Blue Fields (2007). Within these families there is cruelty and violence, as well as deep springs of affection. Instead, the narrative gains its emotional resonance from the dynamics between characters. ![]() But this figure never stands very far out in front. The protagonist changes – the father, the mother, a son or daughter. I n all Claire Keegan’s stories, there is a family. ![]()
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