In the Country of the Young tells the story of Oisin MacDara, an artist who has isolated himself in a tiny Maine community due to horrific tragedy in his childhood, after which he lost the ability to see ghosts. Oisin is enigmatic but lacks social skills because of his hermitage and his unwillingness to interact with other people. It will take the arrival of a ghost from a shipwreck more than one hundred years ago to bring him back to life. And though Aisling isn't the ghost Oisin has waited half his life for, the literally dead and the figuratively dead will both get a second chance at life.
This is the book that makes me believe in ghosts, it's that beautifully written. If you love a good drama, a good romance, and a haunting tale of rebirth and recovery from past scars while at the same time characters drown in the past, then this is the book for you. As always, Carey's writing style is poetic and full of metaphorical language. She weaves dreams and reality, life and death, and intersecting stories together so seamlessly it's tear-inducing. Both the chronicles of Aisling and Oisin, and Oisin and Nieve, are stories to move the heart.
What else, really, is there to say about perfection?
-elln
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