Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, the publisher of Alice McDermott's Absolution (2023), describes the novel as a "dark romance." The novel has three separate but inextricably linked stories (all of which take place largely during the Vietnam War): the...

Someone was published in 2013 and was also a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award. Someone is a novel written by Alice McDermott and details the life of an Irish American family, specifically...