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A Christmas Story For Our Times
Atria
November 2009
On Sale: November 3, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 1439170452
EAN: 9781439170458
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
A perfect Christmas for Lela Edwards this year would include
the presence of her husband, her three daughters, and her
favorite granddaughter, Darcie. They would each be happy,
healthy, and properly married. But life doesn't always
unfold in a perfect way, even for God-loving, churchgoing
people like these. Lela's husband of fifty years, Walter,
has recently passed, and the daughters now live in towns and
states far from the Chicago neighborhood where they were raised. Darcie is traveling to Missouri City, Texas, to be with her
mother, not to Chicago to be with her grandmother, whom she
expects to come down hard on her for deciding to divorce her
husband and the father of her unborn child. Lela is upset
and annoyed with Darcie and herself for breaking her own
time-honored tradition of making a quilt to celebrate each
family wedding. The quilt is still in separate pieces, and
apparently so is the marriage of Doug and Darcie. The Christmas season is about celebrating the birth and
meaning of Christ; about the hope and inspiration that the
story we revisit each year offers. So, as the days of the
season progress, Lela participates in a Bible study group
that focuses on the Virgin Mary. This is the cold season in
Chicago and rough weather, literally and figuratively, is
ahead for Lela, her family, neighbors, and fellow church
members, but in the Scriptures are messages and guidance. If
they heed the lessons of the Virgin Mary, they will learn
from their mistakes and misjudgments of each other and find
favor with God.
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