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Loading... The Christmas Quilt : A Novel (edition 2002)by Thomas J. Davis
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 1942 is set to be a time of change for a young twelve-year-old boy growing up in Smoky Hollow, Georgia. The youth lives with his Daddy and his aging Granny. Days are spent doing chores milking the cow, collecting eggs, and the hated weeding in the red clay garden that provides all the family’s vegetable. But the days are rich in enjoyment, racing with his best friend, Bobby, swimming in the creek, kicking stones down the clay roads. Life is simple, filled with loving family and friends. The seasons pass, the weather changes, and time moves along. Granny is busy making a quilt for her son, Joey, who left home at the age of seventeen for the jobs to be found in Detroit. Joey has promised to come home this Christmas. And Granny wants to make him something special. This book brings much of the warmth of many coming-of-age books written for times gone by. The family may be poor in material things but it is rich in the love of family. And if you just happened by on a Sunday afternoon, they probably would have set a place for you with a plate of fried chicken, biscuits and blackberry jam. no reviews | add a review
A book of love, hope, and warmth, The Christmas Quilt is about home, about roots, and about "one small snowflake following another, settling on the ground soft like a kiss from heaven, covering Smoky Hollow like a blanket of grace that shines white with goodness." Reminiscent of Lee Smith's Oral History or of Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns for its intimate portrayal of mountain life in an earlier day, The Christmas Quilt is a compelling and tender account of seven months in the lives of the members of a family in the mountains of north Georgia. It will endear you not only to its storyline, but to the pictures it paints of Sunday dinners, of picking blackberries, of running train tracks, of a revival meeting, and of Granny creating a quilt for her long-absent son. No library descriptions found. |
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This book brings much of the warmth of many coming-of-age books written for times gone by. The family may be poor in material things but it is rich in the love of family. And if you just happened by on a Sunday afternoon, they probably would have set a place for you with a plate of fried chicken, biscuits and blackberry jam.
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