The opening of a door

"Davis depicts the events surrounding the death of a Canadian patriarch, grandfather of a family retired some years prior from small-town Canada to a Chicago apartment. In the weeks following the funeral, which fills the first quarter of the book, the cast of struggling adult children who had been living with the elders is introduced and then gently vivisected. Half-wit daughter, desperate pushing-40 daughter, drunkard son, bachelor floozy-hunting son, slightly aimless 18 year old grandson, and finally the estranged gay son paying all the bills: each is introduced, given a turn narrating, and gets into it with the others."--Amazon.