We Are Not Ourselves, the debut novel by Matthew Thomas, tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of several generations of an Irish-American family as they travel through last half of the twentieth century and into our modern time. But this description may make it seem as if we are getting a sweeping look at a large boisterous immigrant family – when what really end up with is an intimate look at the life of Eileen Leary, the daughter, mother, wife, nurse at the […]