Last Year's Man Booker Prize Winner, "The Gathering", is a novel of buried high feelings and deep emotions. Irish writer Anne Enright has a beautiful prose that not always matches her objectives. The novel's subject is a heavy one, a woman dealing with her problematic and beloved brother's death. While avoiding easy solutions, the novel never seems to go that deep it should. When Enright looks back in her characters' lives, she is telling us we are the result of our pasts. That is right but sometimes, a novel needs to stick to the present also, so that readers can really care about past.