The Question of Christmas (Free Kindle Book)

What is Christmas? Is it a season or a day, an event or an experience? To some it is a religious holiday. To others it is a season of good cheer and overindulgence with the staying power of maybe four-to-six weeks.

The Question of Christmas, a novella, explores this very question through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy who is forced to deal with grown-up problems while struggling with his own transition out of childhood. Set in the 1980s, he and his friends embark on a Christmas break adventure that could be described as a sort of blending of The Christmas Story, a Hallmark movie, and a Hardy Boys novel. Behind the fun the adventure provides, there is a family struggling deeply with the possibility of losing one of their own. They need a Christmas miracle, and together they learn that this can come in the strangest and most unexpected forms.

Will Gibson keep his sanity and become the little girl’s pet? Will Gracie ever see the splendor of the Russian Versailles? Will the farmer survive the evil machinations of the rats, Bratwold and Eastman? Drift back to the days of Barbie dolls, hula hoops, and Sputnik to find out.