A Christmas Memory
Illustrated by Peck, Beth
First published in 1956, "A Christmas Memory" is the story from Truman Capote’s childhood of lovingly making fruitcakes from scratch at Christmastime with his elderly cousin. This autobiographical recollection of Capote’s rural Alabama boyhood is an unforgettable portrait of an odd but enduring friendship between two innocent souls—one young and one old—and the memories they share of a deeply meaningful Christmas.
- Publication Date
- 1956
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- Reading level
- Upper Elementary
- Content warning
- None
Book tags
- Format
- Chapter Book
- Holidays
- Christmas
- Genre
- Fiction
- Culture
- United States
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