A 13-year-old boy is given a Christmas present by his single mother, the only thing she can afford: a sweater, which he scorns, having wanted a bicycle. He crumples the sweater into a ball and throws it on the floor of his room. When his mother dies in a freak car accident, Eddie is sent to live with his grandparents, with only the sweater to remember her by. Orphaned, bitter, angry and alone, Eddie is tormented by dreams of the way he treated his mother, until he meets someone who understands him: a next-door neighbor who may or may not actually exist. With Russell's help. Eddie is able to come to see the sweater as something that will stay with him for the rest of hist life, and ultimately it teaches him that the true meaning of a gift is that it is given with love.
From Glenn:
"I began writing this story with the sole intention of only sharing it with my family. But something happened along the way: The story took over and wrote itself. There were things I had spent years trying (and eventually succeeding) to forget that just spilled out of the end of my pen; stories that I had never intended to share with anyone.
Yet now that the story is out, I share it with joy. It's almost as if it wanted to be told...
And while some of the names and events have been changed, what follows is, at its core, the story of the most important Christmas of my life. In the spirit of this blessed season, I share this story as my gift to you. May it bring you and your loved ones the same joy it has brought to me."
From Glenn:
"I began writing this story with the sole intention of only sharing it with my family. But something happened along the way: The story took over and wrote itself. There were things I had spent years trying (and eventually succeeding) to forget that just spilled out of the end of my pen; stories that I had never intended to share with anyone.
Yet now that the story is out, I share it with joy. It's almost as if it wanted to be told...
And while some of the names and events have been changed, what follows is, at its core, the story of the most important Christmas of my life. In the spirit of this blessed season, I share this story as my gift to you. May it bring you and your loved ones the same joy it has brought to me."
