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May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
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
That’s 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 world—and this story—is
Colin’s mother. Desperate to protect her children from harm,
she has little patience for Colin’s 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, That’s
That is told in the wry, memorable voice of a man who's
finally come to terms with his past.
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