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
, 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,
, 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.