The Weekly Reader

Dispatches from Ireland: New novels from Michelle Gallen and Louise Nealon

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On this edition of The Weekly Reader, our book critic Marion Winik reviews two new novels about working class girls in Ireland who have their eyes on the future while nodding to the past: Factory Girls, by MIchelle Gallen, and Snowflake, by Louise Nealon. 

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