The second novel to be published in America by widely
acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a
spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the
absurdities of them all.
Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called
Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life
otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep,
however, Grace has no idea what she''s in for. Stephen explains that
he is an angel, a former bridge builder who committed suicide in
1934. He has been sent back to earth as all suicides are to guide
lost souls. Grace does not take this personally at first, but
eventually she has to face the idea that things are not so easy,
and that her greatest intimacy is with this supernatural creature.
As Grace begins to take stock of her life and the prospect of
caring enough about something to fight for it, The Wig My Father
Wore takes us on a moving, surreal romp through Catholicism,
parents, and the reclamation of love from the twin modern evils of
cynicism and the detritus of pop culture.
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