In her eighth novel, “The Wren, the Wren,” Anne Enright gives voice to a daughter and granddaughter who fend for themselves after their patriarch’s abandonment.

Anne Enright’s novel ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is wondrous. The Irish writer’s latest is a powerful exploration of family bonds in the wake of a father’s abandonment.

Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of ...

“The Wren, the Wren” attends to both aspects of that legacy, taking place after McDaragh’s death and concerning his daughter Carmel, who was 12 when her father walked out, ...