Claire Keegan’s collection of seven short stories, Walk The Blue Fields (2007), is everything fans of her Small Things Like These, Foster, and Antarctica will expect. Her prose is somehow both sparse and lyrical. Her characters are dynamic despite scant description. In the course of few pages, Keegan’s stories unravel and leave the reader breathless and teary-eyed. Each story creates a momentary snapshot of Ireland, one of millions of snapshots a curious observer might find on any given day.