Anne Enright is one of the most exciting writers of Ireland's younger
generation, a beguiling storyteller The Seattle Times has praised for
"the ... way she writes about women ...their adventures to know who they
are through sex, despair, wit and single-minded courage." In What Are
You Like?, Maria Delahunty, raised by her grieving father after her
mother died during childbirth, finds herself in her twenties awash in
nameless longing and in love with the wrong man. Going through his
things, she finds a photograph that will end up unraveling a secret more
devastating than her father's long mourning, but more pregnant with
possibility. Moving between Dublin, New York, and London, What Are You
Like? is a breathtaking novel of twins and irretrievable losses, of a
woman haunted by her missing self, and of our helplessness against our
fierce connection to our origins. What Are You Like? has been selected
as a finalist for the Whitbread Award. It is a novel, Newsday wrote,
that "announces [Enright's] excellence as though it were stamped on
the cover in boldface." "Richly descriptive ... Slightly surreal,
revelatory images are hallmarks of Enright's writing, which beguiles
throughout." -- Melanie Rehak, US Weekly "Cool, wicked, and
quintessentially Irish ... Anne Enright tells a sharp, stylish tale in
an accent all her own." -- Annabel Lyon, The National Post (Toronto)
