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Paul Murray: Bee Sting (2023, Farrar, Straus & Giroux) 4 stars

An unhappy Irish family plumbs the depths of their unhappiness, each in their own way.

Soapy and enjoyable

4 stars

The small town nuclear family setting made me feel so claustrophobic and a few hundred pages in, right when I was starting to wonder why I was still reading this weird family book, all the characters and the story started blowing open. Really well crafted, nothing revolutionary but a solid book to get wrapped into for a few weeks.