A Christmas memory

About this book

First published in 1956 this much sought-after autobiographical recollection of Truman Capotes rural Alabama boyhood has become a modern-day classic. We are proud to be reprinting this warm and delicately illustrated edition of A Christmas Memory--"a tiny gem of a holiday story" (School Library Journal starred review). Seven-year-old Buddy inaugurates the Christmas season by crying out to his cousin Miss Sook Falk: "Its fruitcake weather!" Thus begins an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls--one young and one old--and the memories they share of beloved holiday rituals.