Each one is designated as First Brother, Second Brother etc. Consisted is the proper term because at the time of the story one brother has been killed, one brother has disappeared into the Middle East, one brother married the wrong woman (therefore ostracized) and fourth brother is not really a brother and he is on the run. Her family consisted of a mother, a father, 3 or possibly 4 brothers, 3 older sisters and three younger sisters. The narrator, nameless, is 18 years old and is being stalked by milkman (later Milkman), a well-known renouncer of the state. Some of the paragraphs go on for pages and the writing style can be described best as the narrator’s not always chronological stream of consciousness. It is not clear exactly where it takes place (somewhere in Northern Ireland) and none of the characters have names (at least not what we think of as proper names). “Milkman” is a novel that is difficult to describe.
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