A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

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A Christmas Memory
by Truman Capote

This book came up on the picklist on Saturday when I was volunteering, but when I checked it in, it had no holds found. It's short and looked interesting, so I took pity on it and took it home with me.

It's a short piece detailing one particular Christmas the future great writer Truman Capote spent in rural Alabama with distant cousins. One cousin, in particular, was Miss Sook Faulk, who was elderly and also his best friend.

The description was delightful, told in a very blunt but beautiful style. You can't help but fall in love with Sook here--a woman who has never seen a movie, never traveled further than five miles from home, and saves up all year to purchase ingredients to make the best fruitcake. This simple holiday spent together is so charming and endearing, and it's told so eloquently. I felt like I was right in there in the kitchen with them, making fruitcake. The end made me tear up as well.

I'm glad to have read it this holiday season.