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368 pages
ISBN: 0307716333
EAN: 9780307716330
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Non-Fiction Memoir
How can we know who we are if we do not understand where we came from?
Colin Broderick grew up in Northern Ireland during the period of heightened tension and violence known as the Troubles. Broderick's Catholic family lived in County Tyrone --the heart of rebel country. In Thatβs That, he brings us into this world and delivers a deeply personal account of what it was like to come of age in the midst of a war that dragged on for over two decades. We watch as he and his brothers play ball with the neighbor children over a fence for years, but are never allowed to play together because it is forbidden. We see him struggle to understand why young men from his community often just disappear. And we feel his frustration when he is held at gunpoint at various military checkpoints in the North. At the center of his worldβand this storyβis Colinβs mother. Desperate to protect her children from harm, she has little patience for Colinβs growing need to experience and understand all that is happening around them. Spoken with stern finality, "That's that" became the refrain of Colin's childhood.
The first book to paint a detailed depiction of Northern Ireland's Troubles, Thatβs That is told in the wry, memorable voice of a man who's finally come to terms with his past.
 Media BuzzWeekend Edition Saturday - May 18, 2013
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