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The artist and author talks to Sophie Grenham about The Polite Act of Drowning
"One of the first things you notice about the American writer Charleen Hurtubise is how Irish she sounds. It’s a gentle lilt, an easy by-product of being in Ireland since her twenties. Originally from a town called Pinckney in the Michigan lakelands, she first arrived 25 years ago as a backpacker. She and a friend hitchhiked around the country, starting with interesting company at Shannon airport. “The first person who picked us up was this man who had knives in sheaths and he was like, it’s OK — I’m a butcher. And he was a butcher,” she recalls, amused. “We were OK but ‘what the hell was wrong with us’ is what I’m thinking.” Read the full article at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charleen-hurtubise-on-trauma-a-new-life-in-ireland-and-her-debut-novel-82zxc6q8w.
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