An anarchic and hilarious portrait of a downwardly mobile family in post-crash Dublin
Caoilinn Hughes poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Best British Poetry and Poetry Ireland. Her writing has also appeared in The Rumpus and Tin House, and she’s been a recipient of an Irish Arts Council Literary Bursary. She divides her time between her native Ireland and Holland.
Orchid & the Wasp is a gorgeous novel told in an onrush of wit and
ferocity. Art-forging, smack-talking, long-distance-running Gael
Foess, three times smarter than everyone around her, proves to be
an unforgettable heroine, and her journey will rattle your most
basic assumptions about money, ambition, and the nature of love.
Caoilinn Hughes is a massive talent.
*Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author*
Gael, the young heroine of Orchid & the Wasp, is a magnificent and
assured creation, breathtakingly smart, never self-pitying,
impossible for others to manage, my favorite discovery this year.
Hughes's characters are rare, like no one you've read before. This
is an entirely original novel, dazzling and beautiful, disturbingly
cold and insistent.
*David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide*
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