From Christmas to Christmas
From Christmas to Christmas is grounded in memories and sensations accumulated during childhood. Captured at various moments and situated within a shifting terrain of interior feeling and exterior circumstances. Having lost her mother at a young age, a prodigy child builds a mythology around her mother as she is lured through the memories of their life together. The year is 1961. Maire, close to forty years old with an unplanned pregnancy, marries in hopes of a stable middle-class life for her and her newborn child, but winds up in an abusive relationship with an alcoholic. With no education or skills, she must leave the comfortable surroundings or risk losing her life if she stays.
Told from the child’s perspective, we follow the life of a mother and her young daughter, Natalie. The story traverses both time and place, moving forward and backward in time as Marie relays tales of her life to young Natalie. Chronicling the life of this mercurial figure whose deep family secrets permeate the darkness of Marie’s life, culminating in painful memories of loss every Christmas.
This book is in the editing stage