Rachel's story begins during the last year of her English major, between stacks of books somewhere in Cork, Ireland. She meets James at the bookstore where they work, and the two become fast friends, intertwining the drama of their personal love lives until their individuality becomes blurred. Suffused with the biting Irish politics of the early-aughts, The Rachel Incident has it all: laugh-out-loud outlandishness, familiar heartache, and propulsive scandal. A delight for readers experienced in the contradictions of the literary world. (RR)