Homesickness
Stories
A Best Book of the Year from the New York Times and Oprah Daily
A New York Times Editors' Choice
A deeply satisfying and soulful collection of eight new stories, rich with humour, melancholy, and the ever-present threat of violence and tragedy, from one of our most adored modern writers of short fiction.
“That’s the thing about Mayo County. I find it’s very presentable from a distance. It’s only up close it lets you down.”
A man calls the police to report he’s shot an attempted oil thief on his property, and a stupid one at that: who’s going to have a full tank in the middle of summer? A group of brutish brothers play the unlikely heroes to a troubled young sword-wielding man…
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May 27, 2025COLIN BARRETT was born in Canada in 1982 and grew up in County Mayo. In 2009, he was awarded the Penguin Ireland Prize. Homesickness was named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, and Young Skins won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His work has been published in The New Yorker, A Public Space, Granta, and The Stinging Fly. In 2015, Barrett was named a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35.”
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