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Gavin McCrea
Gavin McCrea is the author of two critically acclaimed novels, Mrs…
DiscoverGavin McCrea at Common Press
The Common Press is proud to be hosting Gavin McCrea new memoir, Cells: memories for my mother on 15th November 7pm - 9pm.
Join Gavin McCrea in conversation with queer poet Peter Scalpello.
This memoir is an intimate story of McCrea's upbringing and early adulthood: feeling out of place in the insular suburb in which he grew up, the homophobic bullying he suffered at school, his brother’s mental illness and drug addiction, his father’s sudden death, his own devastating diagnosis, his struggles and triumphs as a writer, and above all, always, his relationship with his mother. Her brightness shines a light over his childhood, but her betrayal of his teenage self leads to years of resentment and disconnection. Now, he must find a way to reconcile with her, before it is too late.
Written with unusual frankness and urgency, Cells is at once an uncovering of filial love and its limits, and a coming to terms with separation and loss.
For more information and to book your ticket please visit the event website here.
Cells
‘Flayingly authentic and sensationally compelling … one of the best books of the year.’ The Observer
?‘A book that few authors would have the courage to write, nor the skill to write so well.’ Irish Independent
‘Are you going into town today?’ she says, which annoys me because it’s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, ‘Jesus, Mum, not this again,’ and she says, ‘What again?’ and I say, ‘Town is shut down,’ and while she can see I am upset and wants not to upset me like this, she is also wounded by my tone, and I am ashamed then and can…
