Released to praise from New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair, Miluakee Journal Sentintel, Seattle Times, and many, many more, the “exceptional debut novel” Himself introduced the literary world to Jess Kidd, “a strange, bold new voice” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review) “darkly comic tale that is skillfully and lyrically told” (Kirkus Reviews). See Purchase Options below. Abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant in 1950, Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to her disappearance, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years earlier. In HIMSELF, Jess Kidd delivers a black-humored mystery, a debut novel populated with colorful characters, a simmering blend of the natural and the supernatural, and in homage to her roots, a generous dose of quintessentially Irish humor.
