This short story revolves around three brothers who are grieving the loss of their mother and centers on their struggle to spend the holidays together among the turmoil that follows. Amidst the holiday season, the boys and their father deal with their own agony at the effects of the eldest brother’s public writing about a family – whether it is their own is never fully clear. As we all head into Thanksgiving, this story will remind us that this holiday of thanks, coming together, and celebrating family can also often be a bumpy ride.
“With a talent for building,” as Sam Tanenhaus wrote on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, “narratives at once intimate and expansive, plausible and inventive.” McInerney brings us a story that will linger in your imagination long after the Thanksgiving table is cleared.
“The Madonna of Turkey Season” was one of the anchor stories in his 2009 book How It Ended: New and Collected Stories, which was named one of the 10 best books of the year by Janet Maslin of the New York Times.
Jay McInerney’s first published novel was Bright Lights, Big City in 1984, establishing his reputation as part of a new generation of writers. Across his elegant and provocative short stories that he
