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A powerful novel about two sisters who must reclaim themselves after their lives are dramatically upended, from an award-winning author with "a wonderfully original and limber voice" (The New York Times) "Nick Laird takes two experiences poles apart and unites them in gorgeous language...[with] fierce tenderness. " –Dave Eggers, author of Heroes of the FrontierAlison Donnelly has suffered for love. Still stuck in the small Northern Irish town where she was born, working for her father's real estate agency, she hopes a second marriage will help her get her life back together. Her sister Liz, a fiercely independent professor who lives in New York City, is about to return to Ulster for Alison's wedding, before heading to an island off the coast of Papua New Guinea to make a TV show about the world's newest religion. Both sisters hope to write their own futures, but the past has other ideas. Alison...Pages of Modern Gods :