ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on those notions of liminality stimulated by affective mobility as a central trope in Enright's recently published novel The Green Road in which the five members of an Irish family are portrayed through their conflicts, confrontations, unspoken truths, communication problems, emotional experiences and potentials for transformation. Blackman describes the "sentient body" as a body functioning through five senses: touch, taste, smell, hearing and vision. The chapter shows Hanna lying on the kitchen floor with a deep bleeding scar in her head at a liminal moment between life and death because she has slipped and fallen on the floor during one of her drunken states. The novel presents the story of two female generations of the Madigan family, who are experiencing liminality in every aspect of their lives. Constance, diagnosed with cancer, and Hanna, an alcoholic suffering from postnatal depression, travel to be reunited with their family members for Christmas.
