Land
On an Atlantic peninsula in 1865, a father and his ten-year-old son map a country gutted by the Great Hunger for the British Ordnance Survey. Then the father walks into a stand of trees and comes back changed. Maggie O'Farrell's Land is patient, weather-soaked Irish historical fiction for readers who want grief, landscape, and sentences that take their time.
From the review
There's a moment near the start when ten-year-old Liam watches his father walk into a stand of trees and come out wrong. Not injured, exactly. Altered, as if something in the wood reached out and rearranged him. That image sits at the center of Land, and it tells you what kind of book O'Farrell has written: one where the line between a person and the ground they're standing on runs thin, and where the past behaves less like memory than like a weather system that keeps rolling back over the same coast.
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