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4.0

Hilarious supporting characters, and plausible, thoughtful depiction of how it would have felt to be gay in 60s-70s Ireland.

Usually it drives me bananas whenever a character is willfully dishonest about something, but in this case it actually registered as reasonable.

I was hoping this would get me excited to go to Dublin, but hoo, it's pretty brutal on Ireland (or at least 20th century Ireland; though I guess our track record for that period isn't very impressive either).

I liked the 7 year jumps, it kept a long book moving but not confusingly.