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Will Butterfield can t believe it. His 75-year-old mother, Holly, is drunk and threatening to jump off the roof. Again. Holly and Fiona, another elderly relative, won t stop tormenting Will and his wife Elizabeth with their bizarre (though often amusing) antics. Between Will s worries about his bookstore, The Heart s Ease, and Elizabeth s troublesome high school students, dealing with the crazies has become just too much. But then something unexpected happens — Henry Ward, a neighborhood handyman, meets the two old women, and he, his daughter Alison, and grandchildren are drawn into the Butterfields lives in surprising ways. Both a comedy and a love story — a first for Bausch — Thanksgiving Night is about the real meaning of family, and one particular clan that has many reasons to be thankful.