Publisher's Synopsis
Later, his daughter Georja learned some of the darker motivations behind his amazing work. George Skinner's father had taken him away from his mother and brothers in Canada and moved to Los Angeles in 1921 leaving without goodbyes and never revealing to George that his "other family," and of course, his mother, still lived in Canada. By turns inspiring and wrenching, The Christmas House is a memoir of a larger-than-life man whose pioneering creation masked heartbreak while creating and expressing hope.