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Donal Ryan's second novel, The Thing about Dec, was a finalist for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Honors. Ryan's first novel, The Spinning Heart and soul, is an international best-seller and winner of the renowned Guardian First Book Award. While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to carry on to the familiar, even while he loses those who all his life have secured him from a harsh world. Following a deaths first of his dad and then his mom, Johnsey inherits the family plantation, and a wholesome bank account, both which he proves not capable of managing by himself. Community bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, irrespective of where he converts. Though companionship, and the promises of love, enter into his life therefore of a medical center stay carrying out a brutal beating, Johnsey remains a unhappy man struggling to maintain with a global that steps faster than he does. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, The Thing about Dec breathes with Johnsey's bewilderment, humor, and agonizing self-doubt. Listeners will land deeply in love with Johnsey in a bittersweet story that will serve as a poignant reminder that people are bounded in life by simple souls who are nonetheless more insightful and sensible than we realize, or may also imagine. Told from Johnsey's perspective, The Thing about Dec reaches once life affirming and heartbreaking.
