(This recording contains explicit content.) Irish author Roddy Doyle writes fiction rooted in the working-class experience. He is the author of novels including The Commitments and the Booker Prize-winning Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. With his trademark wit and an uncanny ear for dialog, Doyle’s first collection of short stories, The Deportees, offers light and heartfelt perspectives on the effects of immigration on Irish culture.

A.L. Kennedy is “able to grasp characters in the bleakest of circumstances and illuminate them with a mixture of humor and insight” (the Scotsman). In 1993 and 2003, she was twice listed among Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. For readers familiar with Kennedy’s work, the dark humor, close observation, and original language in her new novel, Day, will come as no surprise; for new readers, this book will be a revelation.