From Garrison Keillor:
“A Christmas Blizzard is a story about a rich man who dreads the holiday with its poignant memories of a stringent childhood and who longs to spend December at his estate in Hawaii. But his adored wife is ill and so their departure is delayed, when a phone call from cousin Liz in his hometown of Looseleaf, N.D. his uncle Earl is dying brings the rich man out of the doldrums and back to the scene of his childhood where his private jet is socked in by a humongous blizzard. There is a ghost, a wise man of San Francisco, a genial uncle, an undercover FBI agent, a steamy sauna scene, and the singing of Christmas carols. And several feet of snow. ”

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Garrison explains why he gave some of the characters the surname Sparrow in "Birds of a Feather"A Christmas Blizzard reviews
Keillor offers up a mystical homecoming
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
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192 pages
Hardcover
Pub. Date: November 3, 2009
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