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A Christmas Memory

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First published in 1956, this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capote's rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory--"a tiny gem of a holiday story" (School Library Journal, starred review). Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas seas...more

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Published October 10th 2006 by Knopf Books for Young Readers (first published 1956)

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Dec 14, 2012 Elaine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone

Recommended to Elaine by: KW book club

Wow! Truman Capote is a master of descriptions! He makes the people, the surroundings and the feelings so very real! You almost feel like you are there with him as a young boy and his "friend" (never named in this story, I noticed) as they pick pecans for the fruitcakes they will bake or procure the much-needed alcohol required for the very best fruitcake and again as they search out "the" Christmas tree and decorate it. "A Christmas Memory" was a delightful reminiscence and warm account of a me...more Wow! Truman Capote is a master of descriptions! He makes the people, the surroundings and the feelings so very real! You almost feel like you are there with him as a young boy and his "friend" (never named in this story, I noticed) as they pick pecans for the fruitcakes they will bake or procure the much-needed alcohol required for the very best fruitcake and again as they search out "the" Christmas tree and decorate it. "A Christmas Memory" was a delightful reminiscence and warm account of a meaningful friendship between a young boy and an elderly relative very significant in his life. I loved the touching ending -- brought a little tear to my eye after having also enjoyed a couple of giggles along the way.

I also found a children's book version of this same story and the illustrations by Nancy Peck are a great addition to the story. There is still quite a lot of text so probably would not hold the interest of very young children. But also worth checking out just for the pics.

The next story in this trilogy, "One Christmas," is quite different from the first in that the young boy Truman is removed from everything comfortable to go visit his mostly-absent father in New Orleans for Christmas. You feel his pain and discomfort at being in an unfamiliar environment with people he doesn't know -- including his father. The father wants very badly for his son to love him and tries to "buy" that love. Lessons are learned on both sides and Truman is relieved to return to the life he knows and loves.

In the third story, Miss Sook (Truman's "friend") invites Truman's arch enemy to come for Thanksgiving dinner, much to Truman's chagrin! Odd Henderson has terrorized Truman at school for so long -- but to have Odd on his own turf is too much for Truman. During the course of the celebration, Truman decides to teach Odd a lesson and ends up learning a more important one himself.

I found it interesting the order that the stories were included in this volume. If I were making the decision regarding placement, I think I would put the Thanksgiving one first, "One Christmas" in the middle and "A Christmas Memory" I would save for last.

This was a totally unexpected and delightful side of Truman Capote -- quite a change from other books he has authored. (less)

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Oct 31, 2009 Melinda rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography, 2009, not-worth-owning

I am always looking for books to read in the upcoming Christmas season. I saw this book in a catalog, and thought I would read it first from the library. I'm glad I saved my money and did not buy it.

While beautifully written it is a terribly sad and tragic book, not one that I would want to bring out from year to year and read over again. Perhaps a better title would have been "A Christmas memory -- some sweet but alot bitter and unhappy". It is largely autobiographical, which explains much as...more

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Dec 06, 2007 Chris rated it 5 of 5 stars

I can remember first hearing this story read to me when I was in 5th grade. The reader broke down crying, which even at a young age, struck me how emotionally powerful this story remains. It's my favorite Christmas tradition - every Christmas Eve, when I finally retire, I take my worn copy of Capote's A Christmas Memory, snuggle into bed, and transport to a different time. I have an old video of A Christmas Memory narrated by Capote, so I continue to hear his distinct high-pitched voice speak th...more

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Dec 23, 2008 Susan rated it 5 of 5 stars

I first heard A Christmas Memory on the radio sometime in the 1970's, read by Truman Capote. I was caught and held at once by the eerie quality of his voice, and as I listened to his words, it seemed to me that his voice was the only possible medium through which this southern-gothic Christmas tale could be properly rendered. His voice, the story: all of a piece; yet the written form allows me a langorous repetition of some of his most beautiful sentences. Nothing quite like it.

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Dec 10, 2007 Elizabeth rated it 4 of 5 stars

Nice short read over the Christmas season. A great part comes toward the end when the main character is flying kites with his elderly friend. The friend says, "My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a...more

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Apr 18, 2013 Francis Gahren rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: christmas, classics

“A Christmas Memory" is a short story by Truman Capote. Originally published in Mademoiselle magazine in December 1956, it was reprinted in The Selected Writings of Truman Capote in 1963. It was issued in a stand-alone hardcover edition by Random House in 1966, and it has been published in many editions and anthologies since.

The largely autobiographical story, which takes place in the 1930s, describes the lives of seven-year-old Buddy and his elderly cousin Sook, who is Buddy's best friend. The...more

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Mar 29, 2013 Stephanie rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read a collection of short stories by Truman Capote...including Breakfast at Tiffany's (the reason I chose the collection), House of Flowers, Diamond Guitar, and A Christmas Memory.

The first three left me with a bad taste in my mouth. I knew Capote was gritty and wrote about the unsavory side of life, but I thought with so much acclaim the writing would be amazing. Unfortunately, I was too much consumed but the lifestyle choices of the characters and derogatory terms scattered through out the...more

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Jan 06, 2012 Meghan rated it 5 of 5 stars

When I was in my junior year of high school, my English teacher Mrs. O'Brien brought this book in one day. She sat on the edge of her desk, and she held up a well worn copy of it, and told us that each year before Thanksgiving she reads the entire book (there are three novellas included). Then she proceeded to read to us. We were mesmerized. She read that entire period, and we all had tears in our eyes as she read "A Christmas Memory". The next day, we filed in, she sat on her desk, and she read...more

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Jan 05, 2012 Lisa N rated it 5 of 5 stars

“Oh my…it’s fruitcake weather!” begins this story in a homey little kitchen in rural Alabama. Seven-year-old Buddy and his dotty, 60-something cousin begin their Christmas fruitcake-baking ritual foraging for windfall pecans in a nearby grove.

Based on memories from Truman Capote’s childhood where he lived with a family of distant, elderly cousins. This story has Deep South written all over it, from the blackberry jelly, to the fig branches, the moonshine whiskey, the flies in August, and the re...more

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Dec 31, 2011 Steve Lindahl rated it 5 of 5 stars

Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory is a short, beautifully written story by one of my favorite authors. It's about the relationship between a woman in the latter years of her life and a boy just starting out. It is, according to the book jacket notes, “based on Capote's own boyhood in rural Alabama in the 1930's.” The edition I read was illustrated by Beth Peck. The pictures are as wonderful as the text.

Here is how Capote introduces the relationship between the woman and the boy:

I am seven; she...more

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May 26, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

"It's fruitcake weather Buddy!" I read this only this past month after reading a review for it which said that it was a classic that always made them "realisitically nostalgic." I was looking for good books to add to my list that is already too long when that phrase stuck out. I had already read Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," and knew him to be a writer I liked so I decided to put it on my list. Normally, I read my books in the order I get them, but since the book I bought was so thin, I decid...more "It's fruitcake weather Buddy!" I read this only this past month after reading a review for it which said that it was a classic that always made them "realisitically nostalgic." I was looking for good books to add to my list that is already too long when that phrase stuck out. I had already read Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood," and knew him to be a writer I liked so I decided to put it on my list. Normally, I read my books in the order I get them, but since the book I bought was so thin, I decided to read it right away. It opens with the above mention line and the book describes itself as being a different kind of children's story though it was never intended to be by Capote.
Yet, this particular book was illustrated like a children's book and the title fits the genre, but what is inside hardly fits the sugar-saturated, politically correct gum drops that is the usual children's Christmas savoir faire.
The main protagonists are Truman and his mentally unstable aunt who calls him Buddy sometimes after a childhood friend who died of the same name and sometimes because she cannot tell it is not her old friend Buddy. Such begins one of many unusual tidbits that usually would be edited out in a hurry of any children's book today. There's talk of the Indian (Not Native American as PC would demand, but Indian) who runs a speakeasy and sells a bottle of whiskey to the feeble-minded old woman and a small boy (Such a thing would be called racist now, but this is supposed to be from the view of a small boy back in the 30s or 40s or sometime in that period so back off). There's the fact Buddy and his friend are poor, normally a usual theme for certain Christmas tomes but usually it is a fluffy/happy kind of lower class that is presented - in this story the family is impoverished. Poverty would have never been allowed to describe whatever "poor" family was being portrayed in the usual children's book, but right upfront, Buddy & his friend save pennies, nickels, dimes, etc. ALL year just to make fruitcakes for Christmas. There are extended family living together with no mention of Buddy's parents, but only unfeeling/uncaring adults that happen to be his relatives. Normally in the beloved children's tale the family maybe has an elderly grandma who lovingly tells stories to the young ones bringing them joy despite being "poor." Not so here - actual poverty is displayed but with the same disregard for it by the protagonists as others. It's a real-life version of a Christmas story, but seems surreal in comparison because despite the poverty they share they find happiness in each other's friendship despite it all just like in all those syrupy sweet stories you read as a kid. There's part where Buddy & his friend celebrate by finishing off the tiny amount of whiskey left in the bottle once they are done and are scolded by the unfeeling relatives in the house making Buddy's friend cry when they scold her for giving whiskey to a small child (Buddy) - where is underage drinking in the usual children's book, I ask you, where? Or the fact that in a normal children's book, the fruitcakes would be treasured presents to all their many, many friends you share in their joy of Christmas despite their poverty level, but here the fruitcakes go to interesting people they have met or, in the case of President Roosevelt, never met. They are mailed to a California couple who asked them directions once or one with extra raisins to the Indian who gave them the bottle of whiskey when he saw the old woman counting out pennies in order to pay for it. How's that for a children's book? Selling liquor to mentally unstable adults and small children, but out of charity of heart from an ethnic minority - he gives it them in exchange for the promise of fruitcake. Portraying an ethnic minority in the 50s as charitable and Christian when he runs a speakeasy and bar? What?
Yet despite all the things that are actively expunged from the children's stories today are what make the story real (how truthful the story is will only be know to Capote), but real life is never PC or as squeaky clean as the Disney Channel. The realness speaks to the reader - however old or young - on a deeper level than any PC version could because it is real. This "Christmas" book is less about Christmas than it is about friendship and how it can affect you. Buddy and his friend long to get each other the gifts they knew would make their YEAR not just their day, but resort to only being able to afford making each other a kite out of the pennies they have left over & yet those kites are a special gift from a loving friend that they each adore because of the friendship that they represent.
No Santa, no Jesus, no Christmas really except that it happens to be that time of year and the raison d'etre of the story, but the book centers around the friendship of the two so sweetly without overdoing it that it is hard to finish the book without loving it for all its un-PC-"ness" and heavy dose of reality. There's even a special delight in mischievously waking the grumpy relatives in the house on Christmas morning in childlike anticipation when they know full well that socks await them. But they do it anyways as if a brand new bike or a puppy or a dollhouse sits under the sparse tree they dragged for miles and refused to sell to anyone for any price just for Christmas.
I think the short story is an honest view through a child's eyes especially the themes of being ignored by older relatives in the house and being left to make your own trouble. I know Capote grew up amongst older relatives rather than with his parents most of his life and I think a lot of kids and adults alike will recognize that kind of abandoned/freewheeling theme that hangs in the background unobtrusively. In a time when a lot more kids are brought up by grandparents or only one parent or in some other non-traditional nuclear family, I think a lot of people will identify with Buddy and his friend.
I especially liked the ending - not because it's happy or sweet, but because it's real. Buddy gets shipped off to military school where people yell and fight while his friend's faithful dog dies and then his friend left alone begins to slip more and more until the childlike vigor leaves her and she truly becomes elderly. When she dies, Buddy looks to the sky and imagines two homemade kites sailing through the air. It's maybe not the sugary, syrupy sweet most are used to, but it was a particularly sweet final note to me. And it was a happy ending to me because the Christmas Memory (See what I did there) was treasured as there last real Christmas together. The over-saturated children stories of today would simply end happily ever after or end as if the people in them live forever and will never ever be separated, but here a heavy dose of reality highlights better than any PC children's book I've ever read WHY friendship is so important. Because things do change, people do move away or get separated or even die, but while they are there or somewhere or just a memory of them is still there, it can still make you richer than anyone around you.
So, enough of the syrupy moral and on with the final declaration: It's fruitcake weather Buddy!(less)

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Nov 26, 2010 Jay rated it 5 of 5 stars

A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote

Book Review by Jay Gilbertson

Initially I was all set to review Olive Kitteridge but then I realized, this is the Christmas season and what book is more fitting than A Christmas Memory?

This wonderfully written short story (we’re talking an afternoon read here) is one that no one should pass by. Not only have I read this many times, I’ve discovered that the story doesn’t get old, it simply becomes more familiar; more distinctive in the way it seems to pull your...more

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Dec 11, 2009 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a sensitive and intricate rendering of a life memory--a story Capote has carried with him throughout his whole life. A memoir, the book recounts Capote's memories of one special holiday Christmas, spent with his elderly cousin whom he lived with "as long as I can remember." The young Capote refers to his cousin as "my friend", and she, in turn, calls him "Buddy". Their relationship is whole enduring; it transcends vast differences of age and circumstance. The young Truman had a future ah...more

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Jul 06, 2009 Tressa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: autobiography, southern, holidays, relationships, humor

This is one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. A little slice of Truman Capote's past served up warm and delicious, just in time for the holidays.

This is the story of Capote's beloved cousin Sook, and the years that he (Buddy in the story) spent living with her as a young boy. She's a little daft, but has a heart of gold, and is one of those rare breeds who is a giver instead of a taker.

They don't have much money for the holidays, but Buddy and Sook make a game out of counting their p...more

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Dec 12, 2007 Leslie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: favorites

I read this short story every year before Christmas, and every year, without fail, I cry. It's the story of a young boy and his aged relative and their annual adventure into the making of fruitcakes. For whom? For "people who've struck our fancy."

But it's more than a story about making fruitcake, it's a story about a boy who needs a caring relative in the midst of a whole lot of uncaring ones, and about their relationship as outcasts in that family.

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Dec 09, 2012 Judith rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a very short Christmas read that is packed with wonderful Capote descriptions of days long past. He certainly captures his relationship with his Friend, an elderly cousin who "is much like a child". Together they look forward to their simple, but pleasurable rendition of Christmas in a home surrounded by adults "who often make them cry".

From the making of fruitcakes as gifts for strangers and the adventure of finding and decorating the perfect Christmas tree, it is a story that makes us...more

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Dec 20, 2012 Julie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, memoir-autobio-bio, reviewed

A Christmas Memory is a beautifully written autobiographical book by Truman Capote. The illustrations are gorgeously rendered by Beth Peck. In the book, Truman, referred to as "Buddy" recalls his special friendship with his 60+ year old cousin. In a world where these two are largely left to their own devices, neglected, and friendless, their relationship with one another is one of unconditional love and acceptance, and warmth and wonder. Although his cousin is described as "still a child," she h...more A Christmas Memory is a beautifully written autobiographical book by Truman Capote. The illustrations are gorgeously rendered by Beth Peck. In the book, Truman, referred to as "Buddy" recalls his special friendship with his 60+ year old cousin. In a world where these two are largely left to their own devices, neglected, and friendless, their relationship with one another is one of unconditional love and acceptance, and warmth and wonder. Although his cousin is described as "still a child," she has many valuable lessons to impart to the Buddy. Having worked with abused and neglected children in my career, I often saw the healing that could come from having just one person in their lives who believed in them, who saw their value and worth, and who loved them. It's no wonder that Truman Capote would write this book as a tribute to the memory of this simple but beautiful woman and that this would be his Christmas memory.

It's difficult to understand those who criticize this book as not being appropriate for Christmas or as showing no understanding of Christmas. Despite their impoverished existence, Buddy and his friend share meaningful Christmas traditions together and truly make Christmas special for one another. They save every penny they work for, to give to others, to those they consider friends, at Christmastime. This book is all about the joy of giving, the desire to give, and how much more they would love to give to one another if they could. The pleasures they take in their pre-Christmas activities are simple but heart-felt, and they share a sense of excitement and wonder together. What more should Christmas be about than the selfless love these two unlikely companions share, and their pure joy in here and now time spent together. Yes, there is sadness to this book as there is in life. And as in life, not all endings are happy, people are separated, and as we know, just as there is a time for living, there also is a time for dying. But what remains, do we focus on the separation, or death OR do cherish the memory of people who live on in our hearts - all that they meant to us and taught us. For those of Christian faith, do we focus on our separation from others or from Christ, or do we focus on the people and in Christ who lives in our hearts, and in whom we believe we will be reunited in heaven. (less)

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Jan 07, 2013 M K rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, memoir, kids

I read this to the kids this year after the suggestion from Katrina Kenison. Because of the chaotic season and health challenges, we didn't finish it until after Christmas. I think they were mostly asleep when I finished it, but I wanted to be done because Christmas was over.

They picked up some of the story. How could they not? With such vivid descriptions of smells, characters, days. They loved the character (? Iforget his name - it was funny) where the boy and his friend were getting moonshin...more

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Dec 22, 2011 Amy Young rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

My mom's book group read "A Christmas Memory" and all RAVED about it, so I had to read it. THankfully I had a book of three short stories by Capote, including "ACM." In each of the three stories there is a much older cousin (I think in her sixties when Truman was 7 or 8) who was "like a child." She and "Buddy" (as she calls Capote) had a close and endearing relationship. He writes the way I wish I could.

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Dec 26, 2012 JanB rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club

Capote writes beautifully in this autobiographical short story of the friendship between he and his elderly cousin, his “special friend”. It’s a tender story on the power of love and simple pleasures to bring joy even amidst extreme poverty and living among disapproving and unloving relatives.

My favorite passage:
““My, how foolish I am!...You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it woul...more

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Jan 15, 2013 Ileana rated it 3 of 5 stars

“My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has al...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Margie rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who loves childhood memories - and Christmas!

Shelves: memoir, christmas

This is such a lovely little book and a beautifully wrought gem of writing. I would go so far as to call it a "prose poem memoir." Capote relates the poignant memory of a very significant and loving family member in his childhood - an older cousin who brought him joy and kindness while sharing her own childlike sense of wonder and enthusiasm for life.

This particular 2006 (50th anniversary) edition is delightfully illustrated by Beth Peck and is presently (Feb. 2013) for sale at Amazon. It is 48...more

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Feb 05, 2008 Joan rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is one of my favorite Holiday books. There was a TV version of it done in 1966 with Geraldine Paige which was excellent. A newer version was done in 1997 with Patty Duke which doesn't even compare. If you ever get a chance to see the first version , it is excellent.

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Aug 08, 2012 Cindi rated it 4 of 5 stars

Wow. Truman Capote sure knew how to turn a phrase. His descriptive language makes you feel as if you are right there along with Buddy and his child-like aged friend. Whether it's pushing an old wicker baby buggy through the fields to collect pecans or making decorations for the Christmas tree, the words on the written page spring to life.

This short story is truly the tale of a grown man's childhood memory; a memory of a time before things got more complicated in his life and the closeness he sh...more

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Apr 14, 2008 Lyn rated it 5 of 5 stars

What's so beautiful about this little book is its radiant nostalgia. Most well-read people know what Truman Capote was like as an adult. Jaded, cynical, sarcastic, self-serving... Here we meet lonely little boy that was in him all along.

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Mar 24, 2008 Cherry rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Cherry by: Leslie Jones

I was so happy to read this as one of my holiday reads. I love Truman Capote's writing style. It was a great read because it was told through a child's eyes which is just what you want to be looking through when it is the holiday season.

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Jan 17, 2011 Ensiform rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

An autobiographical memoir, this tells of the friendship between the seven-year-old “Buddy” and the eccentric sixty-something distant cousin with whom he lives (among other, less fun, more grown-up relatives). The pair’s affection is displayed in their Christmas traditions. Poor in money and with only each other for friendship, they collect money from the rest of the household by killing flies, bake fruitcakes, trek for miles on foot to cut a tree, and exchange meaningful homemade gifts.

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Dec 28, 2011 Sarah rated it 4 of 5 stars

What a sweet story of two unlikely friends: a seven year old boy and an older woman. Together, they make a bunch of fruitcakes to give away and enjoy the simplicity of Christmas morning.

My favorite part: "My, how foolish I am!" my friend cries, suddenly alert, like a woman remembering too late she has biscuits in the oven. "You know what I've always thought?" she asks in a tone of discovery and not smiling at me but a point beyond. "I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying bef...more

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Jul 07, 2007 Alison rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone, Southerners

Perfect little story about a Christmas with Capote, the child, and his not quite right cousin "Sook." They make fruicakes, drink whisky, and exchange gifts in rural, Depression-era Alabama. Bring a kleenex.

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Aug 15, 2011 Vasco rated it 4 of 5 stars

"My, how foolish I am! You know what I've always thought? I've always thought a body would have to be sick and dying before they saw the Lord. And I imagined that when He came it would be like looking at the Baptist window: pretty as colored glass with the sun pouring through, such a shine you don't know it's getting dark. And it's been a comfort: to think of that shine taking away all the spooky feeling. But I'll wager it never happens. I'll wager at the very end a body realizes the Lord has al...more

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