![]() From this initial approach, casual but menacing, the community, already suspicious of her for her "beyond-the-pale" habit of walking and reading 19th-century literature, assumes that she is involved with the rebel. One day, "milkman," a "highranking, prestigious dissident" who has nothing to do with the milk trade, offers the narrator a ride. The community is wedged between the renouncers, meting out rough justice for any suspected disloyalty, and the state's security forces. ![]() Her town is effectively governed by paramilitary renouncers of the state "over the water," as they call it. ![]() ![]() The narrator she and most of the characters are unnamed ("maybe-boyfriend," "third brother-in-law," "Somebody McSomebody") lives in an unspecified town in Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s. ![]() In her Booker-winning novel, Burns (No Bones) gives an acute, chilling, and often wry portrait of a young woman and a district under siege. ![]()
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