02141cam a2200397 i 4500 607112447 TxAuBib 20221014120000.0 220919s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022941580 9780316405904 hardcover 0316405906 hardcover (OCoLC)1345063820 TxAuBib rda Patterson, James, 1947- The twelve topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas / James Patterson and Tad Safran. 12 topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas. Topsy-turvy, very messy days of Christmas. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. ©2022. 276 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime. After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, 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 this year. 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. -- adapted from Goodreads and perusal of book. 20221014. Bereavement Fiction. Entertaining Fiction. Harlem (New York, N.Y) Fiction. Christmas fiction. Domestic fiction. Novels. Safran, Tad,.