Donald G. Evans is the author of the novel Good Money After Bad and editor of Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year; his short stories have been published in a variety of literary journals. He is the Founding Executive Editor of the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, has been listed four times in the Newcity Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago feature, and received the Chicago Writers Association’s Spirit Award for lifetime achievement. He won a residency at Saltonstall Arts Colony and was an artist-in-residence at Cliff Dwellers Club. He lives just outside Chicago with his... Read More
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An Off-White Christmas Paperback
October 1, 2018
Trade paperback | 190 pgs.
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An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas.
Summary
An Off-White Christmas features a dozen stories all set on or around Christmas, though with little to no clear religious emphasis. Instead, these stories explore life changes and choices and chaos in times of heightened drama, when family and friends and life partners merge to form cohesive units, happy or otherwise. The stories range from a gambling spree in Las Vegas to a caravan traveling to Baraboo; from a teepee hotel in Kentucky to a retro movie theatre in Arizona; from a jolly Santa lookalike to a frustrated Dickensian actor; from students to retirees. Christmas, in these stories, is a character as much as a setting—it acts upon and with plot to create tension, but each story is unique. It’s hardly all sugar plums and pure white flakes, but always there’s that hope. Just as the notion of a “white Christmas” evokes well worn traditions of the holiday, these dozen “un-white Christmas” stories introduce potential traditions that could expand and augment the Christmas spirit.
Illustrations by Hannah Jennings.
Hannah Jennings has designed and illustrated countless books, websites, and signs that interpret exhibits in zoos and museums. The focus of her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago was her artist’s books; she now teaches design at Dominican University. She is past president of the Society for Experiential Graphic Design. Her love of design, making images, and Christmas is apparent in her non-traditional online advent calendars; see them with her other illustrations at HannahJennings.com.