The Gathering | Summary
The Gathering opens with Veronica, a thirty-nine-year-old mother of two girls, briefly ruminating about memories, relationships, family secrets, and death. She touches these subjects lightly in the beginning, but these themes run throughout Enright’s story.
In the opening lines, Veronica wants to recount what happened in her grandmother’s home when she was eight or nine years old, but she is not quite sure if this event was real or imagined. She says, “I do not know how to tell the truth.” All she remembers are stories. These stories are influenced by her...
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