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After a stunning car accident, one family gathers for an unforgettable Christmas filled with secrets and revelations in this deeply sensed book by one of Ireland's foremost modern authors. Henry has been estranged from his children since his divorce with their mother, Stephanie. But when a car accident claims the life of his second partner and leaves him with incomplete amnesia, Henry embarks on the fraught voyage of earning amends. As the family gathers for Holiday dinner, Henry's storage comes home in begins and prevents - the wedges that drove his little girl, Ciara, away; the gradual onset of his mother's dementia; the real cause of his break along with his ex-wife. A tragicomedy of near-Shakespearean proportions, Foolish Mortals is at once a book of the mending of a dysfunctional family and a portrait of the modernizing gradient blending old Ireland into new.