About the Book: This collection of short stories from Colm Tóibín follows people living far from home, grappling with longing and distance from their past lives. A Galway woman learns of her son’s WWI death; an Irishman hides in Barcelona haunted by his crimes; a man travels to Dublin to beg a favor from a government minister; a pregnant woman endures the Spanish Civil War; an undocumented worker must leave America and his child after thirty years; three sisters in Argentina decide to return to Catalonia. Quietly powerful tales of exile and private longing from a bestselling Irish author.