01682cam a2200349 i 4500 605424419 TxAuBib 20220913120000.0 220624s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022941580 9780316405904 0316405906 TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947- The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas / James Patterson, Tad Safran. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 288 pages. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Every year at Christmastime, 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 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. 20220913. Holidays Fiction. Christmas Fiction. Family Life Fiction. Urban Life Fiction. Families Fiction. New York (N. Y.) Fiction. Christmas Fiction. Safran, Tad.