Currently reading
McGlue
Knife Fight and Other Struggles
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
The Good Lord Bird
Ancillary Justice
Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More (New Edition)
Dissident Gardens
Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
Complete Novels
Sharp and punchy prose and wit, even as its narrative structure juggles a slew of increasingly-connected characters, all finely-etched and compelling. The plot sprawls and contracts with increasing rhythm, and it gets the blood pumping. A really fine crime novel, if not really reinventing the genre, and I look forward to more of Kerrigan's stuff -- maybe with more emphasis on the context, the underbelly of the Celtic Tiger. I can't recall where I heard about this, but an unexpected delight.