Holiday Miracles: A Christmas/Hanukkah Story

by Ellyn Bache

In this touching portrait of an interfaith family where the mother is Jewish and the father Christian, the preparations for both Hanukkah and Christmas are interrupted by the five-year-old son's sudden, frightening illness. But in the end, their doubts turn to wonder as they learn anew the lesson central to both Christianity and miracles are possible. Love can heal. This moving book will touch anyone who has ever known an interfaith family -- their own or a friend's -- or has ever worried about the fate of a child.

Genres: Christmas

133 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2001

About the author

Ellyn Bache is the author of nine novels, including Safe Passage, which was made into a movie starring Susan Sarandon, and The Art of Saying Goodbye, which was chosen as an “Okra Pick” by the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance. She began her career writing short stories for women’s magazines like McCall’s and Good Housekeeping, some of which have recently been collected in Kaleidoscope: 20 Stories Celebrating Women’s Magazine Fiction. She has also published dozens of literary stories, including those which appeared in a collection that won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize. After many years living in Wilmington, NC, she moved to Greenville, SC, a lovely city but much too far from the ocean. Visit her at www.ellynbache.com

Reviews

[Dawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read this for book club. Too sweet for me, though there was the inevitable lesson learned about allowing for different religions, and that maybe different isn't all that different after all. Was a very quick read. It was OK for a holiday story where you sort of expect this sort of writing. Sort of long holiday card from someone you don't keep up with during the rest of the year.

[Juicy_Groot · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a very sweet short book but the charecters are well thought out and I liked the plot.