It is 1968 and New Yorkers prepare for a happy Christmas season. For sisters Jane Owens and Pearl Johnson, the holidays are anything but joyous. Earlier in the year, Angie, Jane's youngest daughter ran away with her boyfriend, Larry. Jane argues with her husband, Reverend Earl Owens, about letting Angie return home. Ella, Jane's oldest daughter, leaves home because Larry was her boyfriend. Sam, Jane's son, leaves and joins a Black militant group after a fight with his father. Pearl expects her husband, Bill, to retire from the military. She learns that the Vietnamese capture him. Finally, Jane and Pearl fight and stop speaking. Things aren't right at the preacher's house this year. It's doubtful that anyone is coming home this Christmas
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B-STARR - C&B Book Reviewer - IMPRESSED,
By Carol @ C&B "Caroline Rogers" (Queens New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Please Come Home for Christmas (Paperback)
B. STARR - 5 STARS
BOOK Review: Please Come Home for Christmas, is the perfect gift for this season. Family is everything and during the holidays we all come together to celebrate with our families. Giving family members copies of this title will enlightened them, and help them remember what family is truly all about. Don has done a marvelous job of expressing the value of family relationships. We are all individuals, we have different characteristics, Don shows this in his well written novel about true meaning Family. In relationships their are always disagreements, why should it be any different with our family members, we are only required to love one another, this doesn't mean that we will agree with the members of our families at all times. We all have flaws, and want to be understood. Don tells the tale of our families in Please Come Home For Christmas. The beginning: Jane the devoted wife and mother, and Earl the Father, husband, and pastor of Queens Community Church face the same problems that we do with our own children. Their two daughters Ella and Angie battle over the same man, Angie steals Ella's ex-boyfriend, Larry and runs away with him, and to top it off becomes pregnant. Ella is angry with her Mom for allowing her to come back home pregnant and with her ex-boyfriends child. Sound familiar? The holidays bring drama when the family gets together for Thanksgiving. Sam their son is always at odds with his father Earl for various reasons. Earl is a pastor and doesn't agree with all the immoral behavior going on in his family. He is really upset by Sam's desire to join a Black Militant group. Sam lack of respect hightens unfortunately, when he finds out that his fault finding finger pointing dad has been immoral with another woman -- Sound familiar? The family drama doesn't stop there - Pearl, Jane's sister and her son are waiting on her husband Bill to return form military duty only to find that he has been captured by the enemy in Vietnam. Will he make it home for Christmas? Please Come Home For Christmas. Sam can't take it anymore drama, stressed out he attempts to rid his self of this world. Meanwhile Ella is fighting with herself over whether she should move in with Larry her ex-boyfriend who ran off with her sister and fathered her child. Sound Familiar? This story takes on many twist and turns of real family life, it is a page turner about family and relationships. Despite the anger, resentment the drama does come to an end and unconditional love wins overall. It does in most of our families, only if we remember that loving our family unconditionally is what truly counts. I was very impressed with the message that this author brought to the forefront regarding African American family relationships. Bravo is all that I can say. The part that really touched my heart was that the book is based on the song that we all have come to love "Please Come Home For Christmas" - Sound Familiar? This is a great novel and I am personally giving this book to the members of my family for Christmas Five Stars are Just not enough. B-Starr
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