Selected as a semi-finalist for the 2007 William Faulkner Prize for the novel, Brio takes the reader to the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where they find out what life is like for people who are disabled in a variety of ways: by birth trauma, by grief, by the ill treatment they've received in the Empire State. This unsentimental, hilarious and tragic journey begins in 2003 and takes the reader through all four seasons in the mountains as well as in the life of the woman responsible for making sure everyone gets what they deserve.