A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.
Liadan Ní Chuinn was born in the north of Ireland in 1998. Every One Still Here is their first book.
Read: ‘Amalur’ by Liadan Ni Chuinn, Granta
First line: Berezi’s husband beat their dog and afterwards my boyfriend said, ‘I hate when he does that.’