![]() ![]() Francis, who's a sensitive young guy, is overwhelmed for a minute by the career he's pretty much just fallen into. When they arrive they find the owner lying dead in a pool of blood. Two rookie cops, an Irish immigrant named Francis Gleeson and his partner, Brian Stanhope, are on foot patrol in the Bronx when they answer a call about an armed robbery in progress at a nearby bodega. Books about the dilapidated New York of the '70s and '80s have been having "a moment" ever since Patti Smith's memoir, Just Kids, was published in 2010 and, though Keane's novel, which takes place far away from Smith's punk hangouts, goes on to span 40 years, its opening scene of a city gone haywire sets the emotional mood for the story that follows. ![]() It's one of those delicate titles that instantly goes poof! into the air but that's the only strike there is against Keane's novel which is, otherwise, one of the most unpretentiously profound books I've read in a long time.Īsk Again, Yes opens up in 1973 in New York City. That's what everyone I've raved to about this book has said to me a couple of minutes after I've told them the title. Mary Beth Keane's new novel is called Ask Again, Yes. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Ask Again, Yes Author Mary Beth Keane ![]()
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