Wild Quiet

From the shadowy enclaves of nineteenth-century Barcelona to the sinister grandeur of an Indonesian palace of the 1980s. In the feverish heat of Andalucia, a woman awaits the arrival of a son who was stolen from her over thirty years ago. In a Dublin school, a young Somali girl is tougher than she seems. At the edge of the city, three teenage friends are forced to confront racial boundaries when a harmless game turns deadly, and a young Brazilian woman finds herself in the bizarre position of having to learn the Irish language when she travels to Ireland for love. Playful in style, yet fearless in scope and ambition, O'Donnell's dbut collection is both humorous and moving.