TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patterson,James
AU  - Safran,Tad
TI  - The twelve topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas
SN  - 9780316405904
U1  - 813/.54 23/eng/20220902
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New York
PB  - Little, Brown and Company
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Entertaining
KW  - Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - Christmas fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Novels
N2  - During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime; After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe unhung, chestnuts unroasted, carols unplayed, cookies uncooked, a tree un-visible, and guests uninvited. Until this year. Until guests start arriving anyway. In pairs and sixes, in sevens and tens-- they keep coming. And they stay. For twelve long, hard, topsy-turvy, very messy days. That's when the Sullivans discover that those moments in life that defy hope, expectation, or even imagination, might be the best gifts of all.  -- adapted from Goodreads and perusal of book
ER  -