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McDermott, winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Charming Billy, returns after a seven-year absence from the publishing world with this elegantly descriptive portrait of a single ordinary life. Marie Commeford is a bespectacled Irish-Catholic child hanging out on a stoop in pre-Depression Brooklyn. As the scattered vignettes of her life unfold, Marie experiences early romantic heartbreak, a brief career in a funeral parlor, a happy marriage, and the birth of several children, including one labor that is hair...Log In or Sign Up to Read More