Book of The Month discussion

From chapter one:

Long before we discovered that he had fathered two children by two different women, one in Drimoleague and one in Clonakilty, Father James Monroe stood on the altar of the Church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, in the parish of Goleen, West Cork, and denounced my mother as a whore.

The family was seated together in the second pew, my grandfather on this aisle using his handkerchief to polish the bronze plaque engraved to the memory of his parents that was nailed to the back of the woodwork before him. He wore his Sunday suit, pressed the night before by my grandmother, who twisted her jasper rosary beads around her crooked fingers and moved her lips silently until he placed his hand atop hers and ordered her to be still. My six uncles, their dark hair glistening with rose-scented lacquer, sat next to her in ascending order of age and stupidity. Each was an inch shorter than the next and the disparity showed from behind. The boys did their best to stay awake that morning; there had been a dance the night before in Skull and they’d come home moldy with the drink, sleeping only a few hours before being roused by their father for Mass.

At the end of the row, beneath a wooden carving of the tenth station of the cross, sat my mother, her stomach fluttering in terror at what was to come. She hardly looked up.

Did anyone get this book? I added it to my January box, I am looking forward to reading it.

I downloaded it to my kindle. I loved The Absolutist or Absolutionist. I heard so many good things about this book.

i have it based off of this BOTM book of the year status - and i started it, but i'm nowhere near having a real opinion about it. how did others like it?

I haven't started. I'm always nervous of starting big books because I never know if my work schedule is going to let me get that far into such a book. I've heard great things about it but haven't gotten around to picking it up.

Read this last year, but one of my favorite books I picked up as extra.

I haven't read this one. My BOTM account says I have it. Now I just have to look for it.

I would have never heard of this if it was not for BOTM and I loved this book!!

Right? this was definitely a hidden gem for me as well! I loved it!