My favorite read of 2013 was "At Swim, Two Boys" by Jamie O'Neill. It would be a shame to add any words to the ones in this beautiful book. In lieu of a review, I give you this tiny taste of the book's majestic intimacy:
“Grey morning dulled the bay. Banks of clouds, Howth just one more bank, rolled to sea, where other Howths grumbled to greet them. Swollen spumeless tide. Heads that bobbed like floating gulls and gulls that floating bobbed like heads. Two heads. At swim, two boys.”
― Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys
