A review by abookwanderer
A Christmas Memory, including One Christmas and The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote

4.0

This is my first time to read Truman Capote, even though In Cold Blood sits on my bookshelf, and I have to say I very much enjoyed his writing. The three short stories in this collection--the first two being Christmas stories and the last one a Thanksgiving story--were the perfect reads for the holiday season. Set in the south during the Great Depression, some of the details were familiar to me because I had heard about them from my father, who was born at the end of the depression in Texas and lived very similarly to Buddy--the main character in all three tales. The fact that Capote based Buddy on himself and his own childhood, makes the stories even more meaningful.