A child's Christmas in Williamsburg / Joseph Nicolello.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicolello, Joseph, 1989- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Children of divorced parents--New York (State)--New York--Fiction.

Children of divorced parents.

Christmas stories.

New York (State)--New York.

New York (N.Y.)--Fiction.

New York (N.Y.).

National Book Committee.

Genre:

Christmas stories.

Fiction.

Novellas.

Physical Description:

68 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : Angelico Press, 2020.

Summary:

Is there any middle-ground for Christmastime, or must it be either a time of bliss or sorrow? Caitlin and Sarah McGrady are in the midst of their first Christmas together without their husband/father, and they will soon find out. Not only is the broken vow of marriage an agony in its own right; it raises, like the holidays, greater questions: a "winning" and a "losing" side, the disintegration of things once set in stone, tipped scales of responsibility, the specter of poverty, how to "go back on one's word" in the presence of a child one seeks neither to hurt nor deceive. Moving, with a curious mix of family members, from Christmas Eve in Manhattan into Christmas Day in Caitlin's sparse Williamsburg apartment, A Child's Christmas in Williamsburg discloses, through an examination of the first coming last, and the last coming first, how our issues are less modern than they are recurring aspects of our ever-present origins. It is about childhood and parenthood, the steadfast rejection of rampant materiality, and a vindication of life and letters. And it is a prose poem of the first order to New York City.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the author, inscribed.

ISBN:

9781621386551

1621386554

OCLC:

1222894456