A haunting tale of a boy growing up in Ireland. ( )

Couldn't finished. Too etherial. Felt like I was in someones dream. May try again. ( )

When you’re in the province of saints, you’re in a land where winter comes in spring; a land of stone and granite; an ancient land where history is myth and myth is history; a land of ghosts and martyrs. When you’re in the province of saints, you’re seeing the land through the eyes of Michael McDonagh, a boy growing up too fast, his heart a jumble of hot-headed love and hope and prayers and revenge and fear. When you’ve opened the pages of Thomas O’Malley’s stunning, lyrical debut novel, you’re in the province of saints in a country called Ireland from 1976 to 1981. ( )