Slant : New Island Books : 9781848408388 : 1848408382 : 22 May 2023 : In 1980s Boston, Ro McCarthy was in her twenties, Irish, undocumented, queer and falling in love for the first time. Then, one by one, her new, fun, beautiful friends began to die...Ro McCarthy is content in her lack of worldly success. Single, in her fifties and working a quiet job, she is consoled by her love of books and her long and deep friendships. Although she still doesn't approve of marriage ? not even for the straights ? she is campaigning for marriage equality in the 2015 referendum. As she becomes addicted to knocking on doors, the ghosts of her youth will force her to confront a trauma and fury she had to bury a long time ago.Thirty years earlier, Ro was a 22-year-old Cork woman living her best life in 1980s Boston. Escaping unemployment and homophobia at home and in the hope of ?becoming less of a langer' in America, Ro was undocumented and working multiple jobs, a voracious reader, forming life-long fr