Seventeen stories about the varieties of the Christmas experience by seventeen of our finest storytellers, and not one relies on borrowed feelings or seasonal stereotypes, and one engage in the grand yuletide conspiracy of mirth and good cheer. Yes, it's a wonderful life...for some of he people, some of the time. But fiction that tells the truth is never about the merry citizens of Blissville or Bedford Falls. And during the incessant holiday festivities, our own chronic troubles are acutely magnified; our losses are more keenly felt. These Blue Christmas stories are not the palliative escape from reality that we've come to expec from our saccharine Christmas narratives, but are, in fact, pluges into an oftentimes distressing reality. They offer you the gifts of honesty, suspense, and transport. They'll carry you away to a world more intriguing and compelling than the one you spend your days in.

Blue Christmas: The Holidays for the Rest of Us

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Motherland

"Part elegy, part musings on the great mysteries of life, Vodou Saints is at the same time an inspirational story of lessons learned from Haitians in the over three decades that Dr. Arthur Fournier has worked with them, both in Miami and in Haiti. These lessons span the early days of the AIDS epidemic in Miami, the political turmoil of the Aristide years, the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010 and most recently the outbreak of cholera. Through all these experiences Haitians have taught Dr. Fournier a worldview quite different from his own. Fournier uses this adopted worldview not only to deal with tragedy in his own life but to make sense out of the seeming contradictions between science, philosophy and theology concerning the interface between Man and the unknown. This is a profound book that could best be compared to Albert Camus' "The Plague"", except this story is real! Consistently thought provoking and inspiring - at times humbling and even disturbing - this story is more than a chronicle of the disasters that have befallen this poor and poorly understood country or the resilience of its people. It's also a story of Fournier's own journey towards redemption and healing. A quest to be not only a better doctor, but also a better person - a Vodou Saint."

Vodou Saints: Lessons on Life, Death and Resurrection from Haiti

Biographies & Memoirs

Fournier, Arthur M., M.D.

Memoirs

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