Jan 1, 2010

A Christmas Memory | What Do I Read Next?

"The Thanksgiving Visitor," a 1968 story also by Capote, is a companion piece to ''A Christmas Memory" and recounts further adventures of Buddy and his friend Sook, as well as Buddy's run-in with Odd Henderson, the town bully.

Capote's novel The Grass Harp (1951) tells the story of a band of social outcasts, including a young boy and his older female relative, who disrupt their complacent community when they retreat to the woods and begin living in a treehouse.

Carson McCullers's Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1936) is the story of Cousin Lyman, a traveling hunchback...