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  • ISBN-13: 9780824947767
  • Publisher: Ideals Publications
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 355,984
  • Product dimensions: 5.32 (w) x 7.26 (h) x 0.98 (d)
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  • ISBN-13: 9780824947767
  • Publisher: Ideals Publications
  • Publication date: 10/1/2009
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 355,984
  • Product dimensions: 5.32 (w) x 7.26 (h) x 0.98 (d)

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  • Posted January 7, 2010

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    Great little read

    I read this book with my book club and all 10 of us loved it! Most of us read it in a day. The writing style flows and so does the story. The author packs so much about each character into this little book. There are a lot of characters, but they are all interesting. This is a great read and not your typical corny Christmas Tale.

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  • Posted December 3, 2009

    Holiday novel reminds about the healing power of Christmas

    The Christmas Glass by Marci Alborghetti is a generational tale of family dysfunction and the power of Christmas. At the beginning of World War II in Italy, Anna regretfully packs away her family's collection of glass Christmas ornaments that have been passed from generation to generation. Afraid that they will be destroyed in the war, she sends them to her cousin Filomena in the hope that the collection will never be separated. Filomena takes the set to the United States with her husband and twin daughters and over the course of 55 years distributes the ornaments to people who touch their lives. Now she's over eighty and still interfering in her family's lives, blackmailing them together again for a Christmas meal before she'll move to a nursing home. Her meddling has caused a rift between the twins so great they haven't spoken in ten years. Alborghetti has a strong voice for portraying family dysfunction and pain. Every part of this family is facing trouble and heartache, but as Filomena and the Christmas Glass pull them together, wounds are healed. Those expecting a stereotypical saccharine-filled, heart-warming Christmas story will be disappointed. This story is far richer and deeper. It's a reminder that no matter how we struggle throughout the year, Christmas is a time that reminds us of the hope that Christ brought into the world through his birth.

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  • Posted September 25, 2009

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    engaging family drama

    In 1940 as Mussolini brings Italy into the European war on the side of Germany, the widow Anna runs a small orphanage that quietly has given shelter to Jewish children. Although she knows she is doing the right thing by allowing the Jews into her orphanage she has one regret. Anna fears the Fascists will destroy her family heirloom given to her by her mom, a dozen hand-blown Christmas ornaments, in retaliation for housing the Jews. Refusing to allow the kids to be kicked out, she carefully wraps the precious twelve and sends them to her married cousin Filomena, mother of twin toddlers. When the war ends, Filomena and her family leave Europe for America.

    Over the decades, the glass ornaments are passed around the family so that twelve different people possess one each. In 2000 octogenarian Filomena fears her family has lost its way as nothing brings them together. As the matriarch and with a nod to Anna, Filomena demands the return of the twelve ornaments to be delivered in person by the family member possessing it. This will be a Thanksgiving to remember as a lovely reunion or the end of the tenuous ties.

    This is an engaging family drama that feels relevant in today's shrinking world in which ironically extended families are moving further away from one another. The story line focuses a chapter each on the twelve possessors of the CHRISTMAS GLASS so that the readers learn what each person thinks with Filomena being the past owner. In some ways anecdotal rather than a linear plot, Marci Alborghetti provides a deep look at what denotes family just prior to the twenty-first century.

    Harriet Klausner

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  • Posted February 1, 2010

    Disappointing

    I always buy myself a "Christmas" book at Christmas. It's one of the things I enjoy; keeps me in the Christmas spirit. This book, however, I found to be a bit disappointing. The basis for the story was good, but I just felt the book wasn't going anywhere. Each chapter basically was dedicated to each of the characters, which was good, but the story just didn't seem to come together at the end. Plus, I felt the ending of the book was just that - "the end". Seemed it could or should have had a more dramatic ending; a better sense of the characters coming together, which it didn't.

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