Crying at Christmas

by John Q Stenson

Overview

A novel of heartbreak and love

In the sadness of life, love is a constant that tears at us and promises peace to those who find it. After an abusive father's violence tears a young boy's family apart on Christmas day, the boy throws himself at love to heal the damage: to retrieve it from his abusive father, to ensure it for his disconsolate sister, to share it with his best friend, to protect it from those who despise his sort, and to be truly in it with one man.

But love does not serve willing hearts docilely. It wounds the boy quick and slow when pressed - as a teen, as a college-aged boy, as a young man, and as an adult. As the boy, and then the man, parry for the right to peace; love fights back, wounding him whenever his advantage runs high.

Through five, interwoven threads spanning 30 years, the novel discloses the experiences, thoughts, and feelings of this hurt yet hopeful man as he seeks to quiet his soul.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163964475
Publisher:	JQStenson Press
Publication date:	04/25/2020
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	676 KB

About the Author

John trained as an architect and pursued a successful career in the field for several years. However, he always wrote during those years of school and work. Driven by an internal restlessness, and inspired by finding someone whose passing comment summarized a shared trauma of childhood - 'no matter what hopes I had, everything always led to crying at Christmas' - John wrote the first seven of his chapters freehand in an ordinary, spiral themed-notebook. The story took over from there, taking him where it would until reaching the conclusion it must.
John continues to write and live his life the same way. Each moment brings the next unknown moment, yet all take him to the conclusion they must.