The Christmas Glass

Alborghetti, Marci

ISBN 10: 0824947762 / ISBN 13: 9780824947767

Published by Guideposts (edition ), 2009

About this Item

With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Seller Inventory # 0824947762-11-1-29

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Christmas Glass
• Publisher: Guideposts (edition )
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0824947762
• ISBN 13: 9780824947767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

In the tradition of The Christmas Shoes and A Christmas on Jane Street, the heartwarming story of The Christmas Glass shows how, today as always, the Christmas miracle works its wonders in the human heart.

In the early days of World War II in Italy, Anna, a young widow who runs a small orphanage, carefully wraps her most cherished possessions -- a dozen hand-blown, German-made, Christmas ornaments, handed down by her mother -- and sends them to a cousin she hasn't seen in years.

Anna is distressed to part with her only tangible reminder of her mother, but she worries that the ornaments will be lost or destroyed in the war, especially now that her orphanage has begun to secretly shelter Jewish children. Anna's young cousin Filomena is married with two-year-old twins when she receives the box of precious Christmas glass.

After the war, Filomena emigrates to America, where the precious ornaments are passed down through the generations. After more than forty years, twelve people come to possess a piece of Christmas glass, some intimately connected by family bonds, some connected only through the history of the ornaments. As Christmas Day approaches, readers join each character in a journey of laughter and tears, fractures and healings, as Filomena, now an eighty-four-year-old great-grandmother, brings them all to what will be either a wondrous reunion or a disaster that may shatter them all like the precious glass they cherish.

About the Author

Marci Alborghetti is the author of more than ten books, including A Season in the South, Twelve Strong Women of God, and Prayer Power: How to Pray When You Think You Can t. Her devotionals have been featured in Daily Guideposts since 2000. Marci and her husband Charlie divide their time between New London, Connecticut, and Sausalito, California.