Nathan Glass moves to Brooklyn to die. Days pass steadily until circumstances bring him together with Tom, his nephew who works in a used bookstore. “The Book of Human Folly” that Nathan is working on is filled with a heap of initially unrelated sketches. As he meets new people, the fragments of stories about endless foolishness merge into a single whole and turn into a tale of the importance and insignificance of human life, unfolding against the colorful American realities of the early 2000s. “Brooklyn Follies” is a slow, sincere narrative from one of America’s most significant writers.