“Sharon was pregnant and she’d just told her father that she thought she was. She’d told her mother earlier, before the dinner. –Oh –my Jaysis, said Jimmy Sr.”
The Snapper is the second book in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown trilogy, about the poor working class Rabbitte family of Dublin. Twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte is pregnant, unmarried, working in the local grocery store and still living at home. She eventually works up the courage to tell her family and friends about the baby but keeps the father’s identity a secret – much to the consternation of her own father, Jimmy Senior, who becomes obsessed with identifying the culprit. Doyle tells the story almost entirely in dialogue, making for an endearingly authentic read with a strong sense of place, and the distinctive Irish slang he uses (eejit, jacks, buke) will make you laugh out loud. This is a warm, funny book about the impact of a surprise pregnancy on a loving family.
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