Nathan Glass is many things: a retired life insurance salesman, burdened with an unfavorable cancer prognosis, divorced, and estranged from his son. He’s come to Brooklyn to find a quiet, solitary place to die, but instead finds his long-lost nephew Tom working in a local bookstore, a far cry from from the beginnings of a brilliant academic career when Nathan saw him last. With Tom’s boss Harry, Nathan’s world slowly begins to expand, leading him on a journey of self-rediscovery. Things become, of course, far from quiet, including incidents of forgery, disturbing revelations in a sperm bank, and the unattainable dream of a rural refuge. Nathan begins a book called The Book of Human Folly to recount every blunder, mistake, and pratfall he has made in his life, but instead finds his despair being swept away in the joy and sorrow of others.

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