Publisher's Synopsis
Christmas - a time of joy and wonder when the child within us emerges. A time of year when the smell of cookies baking or the heady scent of a fir tree can send us reeling back to our childhood. Christmas Is A 'Coming, my new collection of short stories, takes us back to the 1940's and 50's. Follow the Monahan clan and see how we celebrated the holidays, beginning with Halloween and ending with Christmas Eve. When the onset of cold weather in October began the count down and Christmas Day was constantly on our childish minds. It was followed by an almost frenetic round of preparations from thereon as each day brought with it great expectations, carrying us ever closer to the big day. Like so many families of the time, my siblings and I looked forward to Christmas Day with an eagerness so profound, we feel it to this day. The Christmases of our childhood became the bellwether by which we planned and measured all future Christmases. My Christmas stories speak to the myriad ways in which my family and many others of the time created or preserved their own Christmas traditions. I hope you will enjoy the stories of my family. Perhaps you will see your own family mirrored within the pages of Christmas Is A 'Coming.
