Product Description
Seven short stories revolve around the holiday theme and delve into the lives of adults who experience dramatic awakenings to the Christmas spirit during moments of bliss, discomfort or outright crisis. The book opens with a vignette of Ebenezer Scrooge 20 years after his sudden change of heart. The following tales focus on contemporary society. In “Gregor’s Christmas Story,” a Russian surgeon endures a degrading job as a pizza delivery driver in his adopted American country. A homeless man feels the ripple effect that comes with giving a simple gift in “Snow Ripples.” The central story, “My Fellow Americans, God Bless Us, Every One,” is an unapologetic rewrite of A Christmas Carol that involves an American President.
About the Author
His father is generally considered to be Claude Hooper, an itinerant banjo player. Claude disappeared after depositing his seed into Eunice Moore of Robinsville, Tennessee. A few months before the author's birth Eunice was permanently blinded in the famous Sorghum Syrup Explosion of 1958. Joseph started training as a storyteller by keeping his visually impaired mother informed of the day's events. Gradually he began weaving fiction into the stories, which took on suspenseful, sometimes frightening overtones. At the age of sixteen, his mother now dead from severe anxiety, Joseph began reading his original poetry at Tractor Pull competitions throughout the Deep South. His first published work, "...And the Mud Turned Black" (out of print), is a collection of these poems.
