Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases

by Orson Scott Card and Scott Richards

Book Overview

From the pen of a masterful storyteller comes a touching and inspirational story of love, loss, and the true meaning of Christmas that will take its place beside Richard Paul Evans' "Christmas Box Trilogy," as a timeless classic that will be passed from generation to generation.When the Pullman family lost their eldest son Ernie to an unexpected illness just before Christmas, 1938, it was devastating to all of them, but especially to young Suzanna, their four-year-old daughter who shared a special bond with her big brother. A strangely gifted child, Zanna loved to draw, but Ernie was the only one who was able to see the pictures in the curious patterns she made. And he did not live to see her last gift, a Christmas painting she had made just for him.This is the story of that gift, and how it inspired her and her whole family, generation to generation, to keep alive the spirit of imagination, hope, and love, for Christmases to come.Zanna grew up to be a famous artist, but in the hearts of her children and grandchildren, her nieces and nephews, that first painting, the Gift, was truly her most important work. Christmas after Christmas, as the long decades pass up to the present day, Scott Richards allows us to share in the warmth of a family bound together by the transcendent miracle of love.Zanna's life, told in Christmases, will inspire you to keep alive your own family traditions, to share those loving moments with your children and grandchildren for years to come.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765312379
• ISBN13: 9780765312372
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Short but sweet

First off, this book is NOT long! It spans a mere 144 pages and has a rather large font. However, even in it's extreme brevity there are some genuinely touching moments and it's fine way to spend some snowy winter afternoon.

Zanna's Gift is timeless, beautiful, and full of emotions.

A friend gave me this book simply because my daughter's name is Zanna. I read it and fell in love with it. It speaks about loss and grief and their connection to love. The Pullman's are like so many families in America who left innocence behind too early. But in them there is the hope of things to come, the love of what was, and the joy for what will be. Read it today and start thinking of how you can leave a gift like Zanna's for the world to love.