01744cam a2200361 i 4500 605424459 TxAuBib 20220913120000.0 220624s2022||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u bl2022027733 9780316474429 0316474428 TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947- The Twelve Topsy-Turvy, Very Messy Days of Christmas [large print] / James Patterson, Tad Safran. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 336 pages ; 21 cm. 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. Large Type Books. Safran, Tad.