The Christmas Letters The Christmas Letters

Publisher Description

In The Christmas Letters, three generations of women reveal their stories of love and marriage in the letters they write to family and friends during the holidays. It's a down-home Christmas story about tradition, family, and the shared experiences of women.
Here, in a letter of her own, Lee Smith explains how she was inspired to write this celebrated epistolary novel:

Dear Friends,

Like me, you probably get Christmas letters every year. I read every word and save every letter. Because every Christmas letter is the story of a life, and what story can be more interesting than the story of our lives? Often, it is the story of an entire family. But you also have to read between the lines with Christmas letters. Sometimes, what is not said is even more important than what is on the page.

In The Christmas Letters, I have used this familiar format to illumine the lives, hopes, dreams, and disappointments of three generations of American women. Much of the story of The Christmas Letters is also told through shared recipes. As Mary, my favorite character, says, "I feel as if I have written out my life story in recipes! The Cool Whip and mushroom soup years, the hibachi and fondue period, then the quiche and crepes phase, and now it's these salsa years."

I wrote this little book for the same reason I write to my friends and relatives every holiday--Christmas letters give us a chance to remember and celebrate who we are.

With warmest greetings, Lee Smith

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2002
August 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
136
Pages
PUBLISHER
Algonquin Books
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
7.1
MB
Up There Around the Bend Up There Around the Bend
2022
F*****y F*****y
2022
Down This Road a Piece Down This Road a Piece
2020
Home Front Girls Home Front Girls
2019
The Guestbook at Willow Cottage The Guestbook at Willow Cottage
2014
My Dog Pees When Company Arrives... I'm Glad I Don't My Dog Pees When Company Arrives... I'm Glad I Don't
2021
The Plot Against the President The Plot Against the President
2019
Fair and Tender Ladies Fair and Tender Ladies
2011
January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right
2022
The Permanent Coup The Permanent Coup
2020
Oral History Oral History
2011
Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen Sara Foster's Southern Kitchen
2011