ornaments
a christmas memory one christmas the thanksgiving visitor
available for the first time in a single volume are the three holiday stories that truman capote regarded as among his greatest works of short fiction . two of these childhood memoirs a christmas memory and the thanksgiving visitor center on the authors early years with a family of distant relatives in rural alabama . both pay loving tribute to an eccentric old maid cousin miss sook faulk who became his best friend . in a christmas memory miss sook buddy the narrator and their dog queenie celebrate the yuletide in a hilariously tipsy state . in the poignant reminiscence one christmas six year old buddy journeys to new orleans for a reunion with his estranged father that shatters many illusions . and in the thanksgiving visitor miss sook invites the school bully odd henderson called by buddy the meanest human creature in my experience to thanksgiving dinner .
three stories describe a boys relationship with his elderly cousin and alcoholic father and the indelible holiday memories they provided him