So it looks like Evan will be joining you next year! He's super excited, and was delighted to meet you last summer. As parents, we couldn't be happier with his choice.

That is peak arseholery. Rare to have two examples in such close proximity.

Would this fit?

Part psyc thriller, part historical fiction, part folk/rural noir with horror elements.

Nelly learns her dead mother left her money, but it legally belongs to her husband. So she encourages him to defy ancient folklore hoping a curse will kill him before he learns her secret.

I live in Missouri, for which I expect to serve less time in purgatory. It's very humid in the summer here, and sandpaper dry in winter, neither of which suits Irish skin.

Congrats!

Beautiful. My sister and brother are touring Japan right now playing a traditional Irish and Japanese fusion set. Really makes me want to spend some time in that part of the world.

Actually, it was the 1850s. My bad.

There's a bar in Ste. Genevieve Missouri that was ripped out of a paddle steamer as it sank into the Mississippi in the 1880s and reassembled in a local restaurant. Worth a visit too.

Okay, sorry, thank you. I didn't know if this rule had transferred from twitter. I'll not do this again.

What about this:

In a land where folklore warns that nature kills those who harm it, Nelly Malloy encourages her husband to import myxomatosis to cull Ireland's rabbit overpopulation, hoping his death will unlock a secret inheritance and a new life. But the land remembers everything.

Good observations. Thanks!

I made a small donation. You are a fantastic writer and I know the course will be better for you being there. Wish I could go too, but alas, I'm stuck stateside for now.

Haven't read it. I'll check it out.

I guess living in the U.S., I'm desperate for something to save us.

Yes, I'm a fan of Butler, but her last book was published in 2005 I think. I'm talking about something new that captures the imagination of modern readers. Something like Prophet Song, although, to me, that seemed more a narration of political and social apocalypse rather than offering a solution.

I agree. But I think we need more novels that discuss these threats in the world we live in too, not just those a few steps removed from ours by fantasy or dystopian devices. People need to read a "real" person confronting a "real" authoritarian government bought by real oligarchs and corporations.