Author Description

<p><i>From the acclaimed author of 2020 Independent Press Awards Distinguished Favorites Clifford's Spiral and <b>Preacher Finds a Corpse. </b>Christmas Karma</i> is author Gerald Everett Jones's homage to Anne Tyler, whom he regards as his literary mother. It's about the travails of a dysfunctional family around the holidays, narrated by an angel who has a wicked sense of humor. Main character Willa Nawicki is bewildered by a series of curious karmic events that literally ring her doorbell during the frantic season, awakening years-old resentments and stimulating ever-more-intense personal confrontations. These bizarre visitations include a grizzled old man claiming to be her father, who has been missing for some thirty years but now says the title to the family home is in his name - <i>and now he wants the place back.</i> As the angel observes, "The surest way to invoke the laughter of the universe is to make plans, particularly devious ones."</p>