A book of love, hope, and warmth, The Christmas Quilt is about home, about roots, and about "one small snowflake following another, settling on the ground soft like a kiss from heaven, covering Smoky Hollow like a blanket of grace that shines white with goodness."

Reminiscent of Lee Smith's Oral History or of Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns for its intimate portrayal of mountain life in an earlier day, The Christmas Quilt is a compelling and tender account of seven months in the lives of the members of a family in the mountains of north Georgia. It will endear you not only to its storyline, but to the pictures it paints of Sunday dinners, of picking blackberries, of running train tracks, of a revival meeting, and of Granny creating a quilt for her long-absent son.

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Taking out of Jumieges' Christmas bookbox for my mom. Thanks for including me.

Adding to a Christmas Box I am hosting.

Taking from LoriPeds Christmas Romance Bookbox! Thanks for sharing!

I finally got around to reading this book. It was an intersting story...although a little slow. I am glad I read this book and had a strong desire to live in Smoky Hollow!

This book is going into bookstogive's Happy Holiday's Bookbox! Happy travels!

This great book returned in the Happy Holiday's Bookbox, thanks for including it. I am looking forward to reading it and then I will pass it on.

It took me a while to get to this book, but am glad I selected it to read. The book's focus is on a twelve-year old boy during the final months of his grandmother's life. His relationship with her and her "final lessons" are very heart warming. No nail-biting plot, nor exploding ending, but I finished the book feeling renewed. If you want a feel-good book with no profanity, violence or sex, give this book a try.

This book was selected from the General Literature VBB, I hope you like it!

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I received this book today from bookstogive as my selection from her General Literature VBB. I look forward to reading it. Thank you for sending it!

This book moved along a bit slowly at times, but I am glad I read it. I was somehow compelled to keep reading. It is a good picture of what it was like to live in rural America in 1942 as seen through the eyes of a 12 year old boy. As bookstogive has said it is a "feel good" book.

Passing this one on to my sister for Christmas. Enjoy!

Received this in a package of BC books from my sister Maranlin for Christmas, and was so happy to have this special book to read that she picked out for me! Looking forward to reading it in the new year.

I've had this book for 2 years now, so it's certainly time to read it and the timing seems right as Christmas is coming up in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to this one.

Finished reading this book today and it was the perfect one to read over Christmas, especially this year for me. Filled with the love and importance of family and community, as seen through the eyes of a young boy who comes of age turning 13 and stepping forward to be baptized within his church as the story unfolds in 1942. We see as well the wisdom, strength, love for family and continuous light of hope in Granny as her health gradually fails leading up to Christmas Day . . . she dies that evening and yet she instills within her family such joy that their memories of that last Christmas with her are filled with love and happiness. A story that really does "touch the soul and stir the heart".