An audio book.
Boston. Aaron and Jake are colleagues, sharing a flat. Aaron's brother Mo died while being a soldier for Israel. He'd been studying to be a doctor at Harvard. That was 5 years ago. He hasn't talked to his parents since. Aaron meets Roisin (Irish). She's been in a controlling relationship with Brian and doesn't want to return with nothing back to Ireland. She works in a cafe. Her colleague Sofia is going out with Percy who's trying for an annual bonus of $50k. Her boss Charlie starts touching her. The first time Roisin and Aaron sleep together he has erectile issues. He's an hour late to their 2nd date. She invites her to the synagogue - he goes 3 times a year. Her mother's protestant, her father's catholic. They were ostracised by their parents. Roison was brought up without religion. Aaron explains the rituals and tells her about his brother and the bouts of paralysing sadness he experiences.
When she finds out that he takes cocaine, she breaks up with him for a month. Her visa expired 2 years before. If she goes back to Ireland she won't be able to return to the States. She contacts him after she's sacked. They sleep together again. She's pregnant. She wants to keep the baby. She's thinking of returning to Ireland. They stay with his parents, preparing a nursery in the basement, and he finds out that his father has inoperable cancer. Over meals he and his father argue about the UK's treatment of Ireland as a way of discussing Israel. She tries to understand Jews. Aaron tells her that 50% of Jews are atheists, and that Jewishness is as much ethnic as religious.
Over the phone she hears the Xmas sound of her family home at Dublin. When Aaron's father suddenly dies she realises that she's not been entirely integrated into the family. She returns home.
We learn nothing about the relationship between Aaron's mother and Roisin after she's made her decision. And we learn little about why she made the decision (at that moment, especially).
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