The Holiday Season

Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, The Holiday Season and its companion piece, Love at the End of the Year are tender ruminations on the nature of family, the power of love, and a particularly complicated time of year.

In The Holiday Season, Jeff, Ted, and Frank Posey are still trying to figure out how to be a family three years after the death of the wife and mother who bound them together. As the year winds to a close and the holidays threaten to unearth the usual myriad of emotions and memories, hairline fractures in the Poseys' relationships finally splinter and crack over what should be, but never are simple dilemmas: where to spend the holidays and when it is finally time to break with old traditions.

The second novella, Love at the End of the Year, is an intoxicating tale that weighs up love in all its many forms over the course of a single, magical Alabama New Year's Eve.

Author: Michael Knight
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780802143891

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/30/2008 pg. 20