The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan St. Martin's Press (US)
The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Atlantic Books (UK)
  • "The Weight of Him is an achingly sad, achingly lovely novel that speaks to the essential core of our shared human experience. I will not soon forget it. Ethel Rohan, a prodigiously skilled short story writer, has proved herself, in this debut novel, to be a master of the long form as well."– Robert Olen Butler, author of Perfume River
  • "In The Weight of Him Ethel Rohan shows herself to be one of those rare, courageous writers who dare to take on the 'ordinary' and show just how extraordinary it really is. A brave and moving book."–John Banville, author of 求上油管的加速器
  • "How can a story about death be so life affirming? Ethel Rohan's compassionate debut novel is sad, heartbreaking even, but also uplifting, a celebration of the determination to keep on trying."–Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of Mothers, Tell Your Daughters
  • "Ethel Rohan is a writer of great courage and emotional intelligence. She can also tell a damn good story. The Weight of Him is about loss and about life. It is involving, terrifying and ultimately quite beautiful."–Tom Barbash, author of Stay Up With Me
  • "Ethel Rohan is that rarest of writers, blessed with the x-ray vision to see not only past the skin, but past even the bone and into the marrow. In the strands of her debut novel's DNA, lab analysis might turn up traces of Alice McDermott, Alice Munro, Tom Perrotta, and Colum McCann. But the genome of The Weight of Him is entirely, thrillingly Rohan's own. Read this book!"–Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West
  • "The Weight of Him conjures all the grief and regret of a family who has suffered an insurmountable loss. Out of this burning sorrow rises Billy Brennan, a father who attempts the seemingly impossible – to change the world. Ethel Rohan captures a blend of humor and tragedy that is entirely true to family, hometown, and our own private struggles. Poignant and inspiring."–Eowyn Ivey, author of 什么加速器可伃看油管
  • "I read Ethel Rohan's marvelous The Weight of Him in a single sitting, enthralled by the beautifully captured protagonist, Billy Brennan, who tries to make sense of his son's death by losing half of his body weight. It's a story of grief, to be sure, and overwhelming appetites, but it's also a lovely meditation on fatherhood, and hope."–Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy
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Winner, Nautilus Novel Award

Winner, Northern California Publishers & Authors’ (NCPA) Novel Award

KOBO’s Best of Irish Fiction & Literature

Bustle’s 17 Best Debut Novels by Women in 2017 

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San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of 2017

“Rohan’s tender, generous and inspiring debut novel The Weight of Him deserves our full appreciation and absorption.”
—San Francisco Chronicle

“First-time novelist Rohan shows impressive acuity in portraying the many facets of Billy’s and his family’s grief.” —Booklist

“This life-affirming view of grief is also an invitation, in spirit, to join in Billy’s redemptive quest toward carrying on with life.
An inspiring tale.”—Library Journal

“In heart-rending passages, Ethel Rohan captures Big Billy Brennan’s grief and the courage it takes to change.”
—BBC Culture’s Ten Books You Should Read

Most Anticipated Lists: —The Millions, The Irish Times, & The Irish Independent

14 Up & Coming Female Authors to Read This Year —Bustle

“Offers a window into a world most readers will never know.” —Nota Bene Pick, World Literature Today 

“A thing of beauty.” —Irish American News

“Fantastic, painstakingly beautiful debut novel.”—RT Book Reviews

 

In The Weight of Him Billy Brennan undergoes an unforgettable journey in a startling attempt to resurrect his family and reignite hearts, his own most of all.

At four hundred pounds, Billy can always count on food. From his earliest memories, he has loved food’s colors, textures and tastes. The way flavors go off in his mouth. How food keeps his mind still and his bad feelings quiet. Food has always made everything better, until the day Billy’s beloved son Michael takes his own life.

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Despite his crushing detractors, Billy gains welcome allies: his community-at-large; a co-worker who lost his father to suicide; a filmmaker with his own dubious agenda; and a secret, miniature kingdom that Billy populates with the sub-quality dolls and soldiers he saves from disposal at the toy factory where he works. But it is only if Billy can confront the truth of the suffering and brokenness within and around him that he and others will be able to realize the recovery they need.

Told against the picturesque yet haunting backdrop of rural, contemporary Ireland, The Weight of Him is a big-hearted novel about loss and reliance that moves from tragedy to recrimination to what can be achieved when we take the stand of our lives.