PRAISE FROM OTHER AUTHORS FOR ‘THE LONG, HOT SUMMER’

Dawn Tripp, author of Georgia:

“Masterful and starkly brilliant, THE LONG HOT SUMMER is a fierce, gorgeous work of fiction that explores the secrets, intricate passions, and heartbreak of one unforgettable family. Like other great contemporary Irish novelists, Kathleen MacMahon is a gifted storyteller, and her new novel is by turns bold, funny, wicked, unflinching, tender, wise – shot through with moments of luminous grace and a haunting revelatory power. There is a relentless sense of life within these pages. THE LONG HOT SUMMER is one of the most thrilling novels you’ll read all year.”

Deborah Copaken, author of The Red Book and Shutterbabe:

“THE LONG, HOT SUMMER is a wholly unique multi-generational story, a darkly funny commentary on the price of fame and fortune, and a heartrending look at overcoming loss in its many forms. Add in Kathleen MacMahon’s sparkling humor and lush prose, and this is a must read.”

Thomas O’Malley, Author of This Magnificent Desolation and In the Province of Saints:

“Kathleen MacMahon is a natural and incredibly talented storyteller whose rich characters, full with yearning and the heartbreak of what it is to have experienced disillusionment and grief, are in full scope in this remarkable novel of the MacEntee family; they remind us of what it is to be human and more, in the absence of those who are no longer with us, what it is to have loved.

Tracy Guzeman, author of The Gravity of Birds :

“Three generations of MacEntees explode onto the page with charm, vulnerability, and dark humor, as they struggle through a summer of unexpected trials. Reinventing themselves, refusing to be ignored, they will win your heart.”