The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

645 Pages, Published In 2023

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An epic 645-page family saga set in post-2008-crash Dublin, constantly shifting between punctuated and unpunctuated prose, 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-person narration, even scenes written like a play. Chapters swing from 40-page immersions to 3-page fragments. It reads like a kaleidoscope. Everyone carries a dark secret as the tension quietly builds and the mystery slowly unravels. Dark, haunting, with a multi-metaphorical title and a mystifying ending. I hated every character yet loved the book.