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I've cried occasionally at the end of movies - "The Royal Tennenbaums" is a real tearjerker for me - but I've never cried at the end of a book til I finished Irish author John Boyne's "The Heart's Invisible Furies". Sobs galore as I ended a book magnificent in it's humanity. Set in Dublin, Amsterdam, and NYC, it's the life story - told in the first person - of Cyril Avery, born illegitimate to a determined 16 year old girl, and who is adopted by a rather peculiar set of parents. Maude and Charles Avery provide a home for their adopted son, but he seems never in their hearts or minds. But Cyril grows up, finally coming to terms with his homosexuality in an Ireland bound to the Church, where acceptance of sexual and societal non-norms is very slow to come. But society does change in Cyril's 70 or so years of life.

This book just teems with sympathetic but real characters. There's not a caricature in the bunch, nor is there an overwritten sentence. John Boyne's book is long - almost 600 pages - but I read it in one 24 hour period. I'm not going to make this a long review. All I can say is to please, please read this book. Along with Edward Kelsey Moore's new novel, "The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues", John Boyne's book are the two best novels of the year. I'm hoping "The Heart's Invisible Furies" will be issued in audible as it will make a marvelous listening experience.


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The Heart Invisible Furies John Boyne 9780857523488 Books Reviews

The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a remarkably poignant read. Cyril and other characters kept me not only enthralled but they were wonderful company. I will miss many of them.

Many passages are filled with pathos. However, there are events described on one particular page that I found heart crushing. It is so vivid and rings true for the era in which it was written – it will make you gasp. In all honesty, I keep thinking about this passage and wonder how evolved and/or tolerant we are today.

Early in reading this, I realized that I must read other books by John Boyne. So, I treated myself and don’t feel completely bereft of his descriptions, dialogues, characterizations, themes or plot lines.

This is Cyril’s journey and it was my good fortune to happen across Jill M.’s review of this book. I refer readers to her review – at the time I skimmed her review, I believe that it was the only one posted. Since that time many more terrific reviews have been posted. However, I thank Jill M. for her review which I fully read [carefully] once I completed this wonderful book.

Cyril has great humanity, resilience and tenacity.

Do you know the shape of your heart's invisible furies?

In my humble opinion, this is a book that should be read.
John Boyne is a wonderful storyteller. And here, he has a story to tell. At the onset, the table is set most cleverly -- in rural Cork, in 1945, 16 year old Catherine Goggin is slutshamed from the pulpit from the church and thrown out of the parish, her home, the town, and left to make her own way because of the unborn child she has within her. That this is told from the viewpoint of that child as a man many years in the future is the first clue that this will be an unusual treatment of a fairly common topic. But Boyne has other fish to fry, and this is only the beginning. That child is adopted by an unlikely couple, Maude and Charles Avery, given the name Cyril, who learns early on of his attraction to men, and finds himself living in a society that will not tolerate this, and at various times of his life, deals with it without losing his sense of worth. Boyne's subtle vehicle for explaining the Irish attitudes and misconceptions about being gay are presented throughout the book via conversations with other clueless characters, some of which boggle the mind in their ignorance. One such exchange near the end of the book is particularly hilarious.

Of course Ireland was not alone in this (there are other horrific events in other countries), but the overreaching influence of the priests and the church was paramount in the outcome of Cyril's fate. So, in the final reckoning, this really is about a coming of age, but instead of for a man, for a country, for Ireland. Totally immersive for its nearly 600 pages, this book is very highly recommended.
I've cried occasionally at the end of movies - "The Royal Tennenbaums" is a real tearjerker for me - but I've never cried at the end of a book til I finished Irish author John Boyne's "The Heart's Invisible Furies". Sobs galore as I ended a book magnificent in it's humanity. Set in Dublin, Amsterdam, and NYC, it's the life story - told in the first person - of Cyril Avery, born illegitimate to a determined 16 year old girl, and who is adopted by a rather peculiar set of parents. Maude and Charles Avery provide a home for their adopted son, but he seems never in their hearts or minds. But Cyril grows up, finally coming to terms with his homosexuality in an Ireland bound to the Church, where acceptance of sexual and societal non-norms is very slow to come. But society does change in Cyril's 70 or so years of life.

This book just teems with sympathetic but real characters. There's not a caricature in the bunch, nor is there an overwritten sentence. John Boyne's book is long - almost 600 pages - but I read it in one 24 hour period. I'm not going to make this a long review. All I can say is to please, please read this book. Along with Edward Kelsey Moore's new novel, "The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues", John Boyne's book are the two best novels of the year. I'm hoping "The Heart's Invisible Furies" will be issued in audible as it will make a marvelous listening experience.