![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Many of the Does are related by blood others use the surname to indicate that they're a more metaphorical part of the family. ![]() She's the reader's first introduction to the Does, "a family of neuroses, psychoses and Edgar Allan Poe horror stories" that doubles as an exceedingly violent gang that controls the town's underworld. She grabs the first one she sees - a Kalashnikov AK-74 assault rifle, a handful of the wrong ammunition, and throws some money at the store clerk before tearing out of there. The novel opens with Jetty Doe, a member of a large crime family in the fictional town of Tiptoe Under Greystone Cliff (which its residents just call Tiptoe Floorboard), bursting into a gun shop and demanding she be sold a weapon. It's a bizarre and dark fever dream of a book that asks serious questions (and provides some unsettling answers) about misogyny and violence against women. Critics were impressed by her unusual narrative technique and dark sense of humor, and the novel went on to win the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.īurns' second novel, Little Constructions, just published for the first time in the U.S., proves that she's always been that good. That's when her third novel, Milkman, hit bookstore shelves to near universal acclaim. Northern Irish author Anna Burns published her first book in 2001, but she wasn't well known outside of the U.K. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Little Constructions Author Anna Burns ![]()
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