Solar Bones

In the spectral solitude of his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, Marcus Conway, a civil engineer, finds himself adrift in a profound, existential reverie. Though seemingly alive, he senses an unsettling detachment from the world, as if suspended in a delicate, liminal space. McCormack's singular narrative, presented as a single, unbroken sentence, follows Marcus's intricate stream of consciousness as he meticulously reconstructs the architecture of his life: his marriage to Deirdre, his children, his work with concrete and infrastructure, and the myriad connections that define existence. Through the lens of his engineer's mind, he examines how the tangible and intangible elements of his world coalesce and, inevitably, unravel. "Solar Bones" is an elegy not just to one man's life, but to the quiet dignity and inherent transience of all ordinary lives, exploring themes of memory, loss, and the enduring structures we build, both physical and emotional, against the backdrop of an ever-shifting reality.