![]() ![]() The elderly cousin, here unnamed, is dismissed by her siblings as somewhat simple, but to Buddy she has retained her childlike innocence and sense of joy in life. The impression is of a rather lonely child, living with elderly relatives because of some family problem. There is much baking of cakes and collecting of boughs to decorate the house, and so on. Since it’s a short collection, here’s a brief idea of each story:Ī Christmas Memory – here we meet young Buddy, as the child Capote was known, as he and his cousin prepare for Christmas. ![]() The three fictional ones, however, were excellent – emotional, certainly, but with an underlying feeling of truthfulness that I found sadly lacking in the autobiographical ones. The three autobiographical ones were overly sentimental, veering perilously close to mawkishness, and full of preachy moral lessons the young Capote learned from his wise but childlike elderly cousin. ![]() For me, the collection was divided strictly down the middle. A couple of them are set at Christmas, while Thanksgiving and birthdays make appearances in others. This is a short collection of six stories, some of them autobiographical, others fictional. ![]()
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