Gestures Madness and that she must behave

and that she must behave as a married woman would

The Stinging Fly

is the three-generation story of two interrelated families

set in 'a strange city

but rather focus on the subtleties and impossibilities of human interaction

Gestures Madness and that she must behaveA forty year old man, burying himself in work and avoiding close emotional bonds with people, pays a visit to his mother in the country and is forced to extend it upon discovering her illness. While there, he reevaluates past familial and romantic relationships and finally attempts to build new ones. Gestures is "a psychologically precise and moving autopsy of a 'man in the wake of ordeals.'" A forty year old man, burying himself in work and avoiding