Trespassers and Other Stories by Aine Greaney Blog Tour Book Review

About the Book:

From coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland, the characters in Trespassers struggle to reconcile past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope.

A woman travels from her Massachusetts home to her native Irish village to care for her estranged and sick father. Back in her childhood home, she comes face-to-face with previously unspoken losses.

A wealthy couple travels to Cape Cod to spend their 52nd summer on the wife's ancestral estate. On their private beach above Nantucket Sound, the husband must confront the realities of their long marriage and its social-class tensions.

An Irish immigrant takes her American-born teen to a raucous Boston house party. At that party, the teenager discovers that her mother had lied about her child's birth father—a lie that will permanently divide the mother and daughter.

PUBLISHER: Sea Crow Press

ISBN-10: 1961864207

ISBN-13  978-1961864207

Print Length: 130 pages

Purchase Links:

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Goodreads.

My Review:

Sometimes we get into a situation where we feel really uncomfortable. We might think we are a misfit. We might think we could never be our true self in the situation.

Greaney has brought together a collection of previously published shorts highlighting such situations. Some are quite short and more like just a scene. A few might be considered a true short story. All of them relate to an uncomfortable situation. Some times a life changing decision has to be made. Some times the future is unknown and open. Many of the shorts deal with a sexual situation. I felt uncomfortable after reading some of them, not really understanding the stories. They would make for a lively discussion in a women's group.

My rating: 4/5 stars

About the Author:

An Irish native, Áine Greaney now lives and writes in the Boston area. In addition to her five published books, her short works have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, Salon, Another Chicago Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, The New York Times, Books Ireland, NPR/WBUR and other publications.  

As well as being an author, Greaney is a trained teacher who has designed and led fiction and non-fiction workshops, presentations and keynotes for regional, national and international organizations. 

Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, cited in Best American Essays and named a ‘Great Group Read’ by the Women’s National Book Association. 

You can find her online at:

Website: https://www.ainegreaney.com

Instagram: ainegreaney

Bluesky: ainegreaney.bsky

Facebook: Aine Greaney, Writer

Threads: ainegreaney 

Sea Crow Press, 130 pages.

I received a complimentary egalley of this book through WOW Women on Writing. My comments are an independent and honest review.

(My star ratings: 5-I love it, 4-I like it, 3-It's OK, 2-I don't like it, 1-I hate it.)