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“Everything leaves marks, even water…”

Two children watching their parents argue inside a greenhouse, an armoured boy and his troubled sister, a human statue who’s lost the ability to move and a floating six year old tethered to the backyard fence: the characters in Jan Carson’s debut story collection are all falling apart in their own peculiar way.

Absurdist, allegorical and disturbingly convincing, these characters are both wrongdoers and victims of another’s wrongdoing. They are people marked by life yet struggling to forge some kind of future.

Mixing Carson’s distinctive magic realist voice with a more traditional brand of Irish literary fiction, Children’s Children explores the concept of legacy and the influence of one generation upon the next. These are darkly humorous and brilliantly illuminative stories which are both heartbreaking and hopeful and gently critical of post-conflict Northern Ireland.

Stories from this collection have appeared in Banshee, The Honest Ulsterman, Storm Cellar and other journals and have been longlisted for the Sean O’Faolain Short Story Prize and nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
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Release dateMar 3, 2016
ISBN9781910742594
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Jan Carson

Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears (Liberties Press, 2014), and short story collection, Children’s Children (Liberties Press, 2016), as well as a micro-fiction collection, Postcard Stories (Emma Press, 2017). Her novel The Fire Starters was published by Doubleday in 2019 and won the EU Prize for Literature for Ireland the same year. In 2018 she was the inaugural Translink/Irish Rail Roaming Writer in Residence on the Trains of Ireland.

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    As someone who grew up in Belfast, now living in South Africa, I felt deeply comforted by the nuances described in this book. It served to mother me, by allowing me the opportunity to reflect on my own mothering of my own children - in a "foreign country". I loved the humour, the honesty, and Sonja's reflections, which left me wanting to aspire to be a more attentive mother myself. Thankyou Jan.