![]() ![]() ![]() “The novel captures Kate’s insecurities as she tries to salvage her career and deal with Teague, the son of her deceased sister, who was addicted to drugs and alcohol. Whether his sensitivities are explainable symptoms of his disease or whether they’re indeed a gift becomes the novel’s central question." -Karen Rigby, Foreword review. As Kate adjusts to parenting an “orchid child” (a term for those who are affected, to a greater than usual degree, by their environments), she recalls her grandmother’s tales about their family’s second sight, surrounding Teague with a new layer of intrigue. Details are used to stitch Ellen’s timeline to their own: of the remnants of an old apothecary shop where Ellen once worked of the echoes of the past that Teague hears in the stones of buildings as he settles into his group therapy. To Teague and Kate, it is at once unfamiliar and familiar. Ballymore is a compelling setting where ancestral ties and modern byways mix. There, she helps to conduct a study concerning generational schizophrenia. ![]() She submits her teenage nephew Teague, whose care she’s responsible for, into psychiatric care at a university in Ballymore, Ireland. In the 2000s, Ellen’s granddaughter, Kate, is a blacklisted neuroscientist who was fired from her research job in New York after a sex scandal. They decide to emigrate to the United States. In the 1920s, Ellen and her fiancé, Michael, face turmoil because of the the Anglo-Irish war. "Orchid Child is a beguiling literary thriller. ![]()
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