Overview
Short stories by Olympia Vernon, Robert Olen Butler, Mary Ward Brown, and more that look at Christmas from unexpected angles.
While Christmas stories are traditionally sweet, not every holiday memory generates a feeling of ease, merriment, and plenty. In the capable hands of twelve of the best writers in the South, Christmas is a season not only of traditions and family, but of sacrifice and endurance, loneliness and faith. The stories in this anthology embrace the rich and varied aspects of the Christmas season, upholding family, forgiveness, and love as virtues of redemption.
A divorcee finds strength in an artifact from her childhood in �Queen Elizabeth Running Free,� while an elderly couple struggles to find comfort in �The Cold Giraffe.� From Elizabeth Spencer�s �Carrollton Christmas in Olden Days,� recalling warm family memories of a particularly cold holiday, to Mark Richard�s �The Birds for Christmas,� wherein a bleak and difficult Christmas is endured by two boys in an orphanage, the stories in this anthology exemplify the best that Southern fiction has to offer.
While Christmas stories are traditionally sweet, not every holiday memory generates a feeling of ease, merriment, and plenty. In the capable hands of twelve of the best writers in the South, Christmas is a season not only of traditions and family, but of sacrifice and endurance, loneliness and faith. The stories in this anthology embrace the rich and varied aspects of the Christmas season, upholding family, forgiveness, and love as virtues of redemption.
A divorcee finds strength in an artifact from her childhood in �Queen Elizabeth Running Free,� while an elderly couple struggles to find comfort in �The Cold Giraffe.� From Elizabeth Spencer�s �Carrollton Christmas in Olden Days,� recalling warm family memories of a particularly cold holiday, to Mark Richard�s �The Birds for Christmas,� wherein a bleak and difficult Christmas is endured by two boys in an orphanage, the stories in this anthology exemplify the best that Southern fiction has to offer.
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