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...heard other people from other parts of Ireland tell it and I realized that it was a sort of a folk myth about madness and the attitudes to madness and since More Bread Or I'll Appear is a book about genetic madness and how a family copes with it, I thought that she [the girl in the story] was an appropriate figure. She doesn't appear in the book, [except as] a ghostly figure that haunts them...an image that the children all have of this madness that they know is their lot in life...
...When I was growing up there was a certain type of figure, a daughter, who stayed with the mother. In Ireland so many people emigrated, but there was always one daughter who stayed at home with the mother, lived with the mother, took care of the mother, didn't get married. And she was always the one that the mother loved least. [Laughs] It's horrible, I know. I used to go to the funerals of great aunts, and people would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother...
...night and draw a picture at the end from when I was nine. For years and years and years. And it was lot of bad poetry when I was a teenager, of course. Thank God my mother threw it all away she's very neat person. When I left Ireland I was 17--I led a sort of wild existence--I traveled to all these different places. I always say I've cleaned bathrooms in every European capital in the world. I lived in Amsterdam, London, Paris and went to Israel, Egypt, and just kept traveling continuously...
...super-modern odyssey spanning continents and styles, Emer Martin's More Bread or I'll Appear is surprisingly entangled with the traditional theme of family. Beginning in Martin's native Ireland, the story traces one sister's search for her family's eldest and most beloved sister. The absent sister, Aisling, reigns as a ghost-like presence throughout the book, seducing the rest of the characters with her unfetteredness even as she binds them together. Although the story ranges from the seedy underworld of Tokyo to the hot sands of Cuba, these bonds of family are the center of Martins...
...falls to Keelin to pursue Aisling who has been only a series of postcards from exotic places since she left home. The novel begins as a generational saga in Ireland, delineating a long and suitably gothic history. In this generation, as in many Irish families, all of the siblings except for Keelin leave Ireland completely. Finally leaving her boring Dublin lifestyle, Keelin stumbles into the elegant web of family and lovers that emerges in Aisling's wake. As Keelin follows her sister's path she finds herself intertwined not only with Aisling's exotic, erotic lifestyle but with her other...