Truman Capote

Beth Peck

A reminiscence of a Christmas shared by a seven-year-old boy and a sixtyish childlike woman, with enormous love and friendship between them.

A Christmas Memory

Patrick Book

Megan Parrott

This is my fav Capote, hands down. It's a nice holiday story – short and sweet. It's something I read again every Christmas or so ...

“Quite deliberately my friend drops a kettle on the floor. I tap-dance in front of closed doors. One by one the household emerges, looking as though they'd like to kill us both; but it's Christmas, so they can't.”
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A beautifully written book, filled to the brim with quirky, lovable characters, and bittersweet moments from a child's innocent eyes, painted with golden nostalgia.
Capote's autobiographical work is a wonderful read to get into that cozy and warm Christmas mood, and to feel ALL the feels.

Is there anything sweeter, sadder and more human than this quote that embodies the season's charitable feelings injured by poverty and the feeling of inadequacy?

“It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.”

Rebecca Light

I do believe this is the first piece of literature that ever made me cry.

Sara Holman

Natalia Sierocka

Rien

claire

Polly Boardman

Jessie

Sarah Sanchez

Melody Izard

Erin Noel

Gina Cordero

Kiya Robinson

Paulina 

Ketevan Marr

Akanksha Chattopadhyay

Laura

Daniel Nieuwenhuizen

A Christmas Memory

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