The River Capture by Mary Costello

A reclusive, Joyce-obsessed former teacher living by an Irish river tends his orchard and broods over family grief until the arrival of a beloved cousin upends his solitude and ignites a forbidden love. As desire, guilt, and memory converge, his mind fractures and the story shifts into a daring, fragmented meditation on ecology, Irish history, and the forces that divert a life’s course, much like a river changing direction.

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