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The people of Dublin love to talk and laugh, but when the Black Dog of Depression arrives, the city's funny bone goes missing. Dads won't get out of bed, mothers no longer smile at their children, uncles lose their businesses. Raymond and Gloria have had enough, and so one night--the night before Saint Patrick's Day--they set out to find Dublin's funny bone and get rid of the Black Dog, no matter what it takes. Brilliant is about humor in the face of hard times, a perfect story for families to read together, by an author whose keen sense of human frailty and resilience has resulted in many beloved books for adults and children.

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Roddy Doyle is the author of ten acclaimed novels, several collections of stories, and several works for children and young adults. In 2009 he received the Irish PEN Award for Literature. The Commitments was made into a motion picture in 1991, and Paddy Clarke Ha-Ha-Ha won the Man Booker Prize, Britain's highest literary award. The Van was a finalist for the Booker Prize. He lives in Dublin where he was born in 1958. HEATHER O'NEILL is a novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her most recent novel is The Capital of Dreams. Her previous works include When We Lost Our Heads, which was a #1 national bestseller and a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal; The Lonely Hearts Hotel, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and CBC's Canada Reads; and Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, and Daydreams of Angels, which were shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize two years in a row. O'Neill has also won CBC's Canada Reads and the Danuta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal, she lives there today.

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