The Holiday Season
Michael Knight
Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking, <I>The Holiday Season</I> and its companion piece, <I>Love at the End of the Year</I> are tender ruminations on the nature of family, the power of love, and a particularly complicated time of year.&#160; In <I>The Holiday Season</I>, 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&#8217; 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, <I>Love at the End of the Year</I>, is an intoxicating tale that weighs up love in all its many forms over the course of a single, magical Alabama New Year&#8217;s Eve.