Warm for Christmas

Great! Just what I need. Another Christmas. Another rotten Christmas.</p> <p> So starts <I>Warm for Christmas</I> Sean Pachy Kavanagh's journey through Christmas 1986 when at 11 he tries to keep his family from falling apart three years after his mother died.</p> <p>Along the way he confronts rich bullies a preoccupied father and an overbearing aunt. </p><p> He schemes against the distemper of his brother's drug addiction and searches for reasons something called ovarian cancer would take his beloved mother.</p> <p>His successes are mixed. Pachy's answers to life's biggest questions are sometimes funny sometimes poignant.</p> <p>Finally with the help of three mysterious Christmas gifts left on his front porch and a beautiful doctor Pachy comes to understand what's important.</p> <p><I>Warm for Christmas</I> is about real life and real problems and one boy's awakening and acceptance of the wonder of Christmas and his mother's gentle and insightful legacy.</p>