title: At Weddings and Wakes
author: McDermott, Alice
description: Sipping  effortlessly between past and present, between  memory and observation,
  At Weddings And  Wakes
   tells the story of three generations  of an Irish-Catholic family through the eyes of its  younger members. At once a haunting  evocation of life's inexplicable calamities and a  magical celebration of childhood and familial  love,
  At Weddings And Wakes
    transforms every experience into the heroic and the  universal. It is a testament to the remarkable gift of  a literary master writing at the peak of her story  telling powers.