“I guess I have realized that we don’t live forever, and that the only time to do what we really want to do is now. This is the thing about a parent’s death—especially the second parent’s death— suddenly there is no other person standing between you and the great beyond, that darkness, the grave. I know I sound morbid, but it has been such an illuminating insight for me that I have to share it with you. Listen: the time is now. We are the next in line.”
What did you find intriguing about this book?
The Christmas Letters is a endearing epistolary novel, it’s a story of three generations of women who take you on an adventure of their lives in the letters that they write to the family and their friends during the holidays. It's one of those books that is cozy, familiar, and emotional. This such a feel-good story that also at times makes you reach for the tissue box. Everything is in these letters; their hearts are poured out. It is the things there most grateful for; the things that did not go right; and the dreams of the future. You walk away from the book wanting to start this as a tradition of your own.
