They then share the fruitcakes with only the most deserving of persons, including the President of the United States, only to wonder if he serves it upon receipt thereof.
The boy and elderly woman save their pennies throughout the whole year in order to make 30 fruitcakes, just as soon as “fruitcake weather” arrives. Thus begins this short but exquisitely beautiful tale about a young boy in rural Alabama, as he looks back with nostalgia about his elderly, but childlike, friend whose face is “not unlike Lincoln’s.” (I just love that description as well - I’m telling you, Capote is such a treasure.) This sentiment has become one of my favorite holiday greetings.
“Oh my,” she exclaims, her breath smoking the windowpane, “it’s fruitcake weather!” And Capote is at his very best when depicting complex characters in simple sentences: Truman Capote (author of In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany’s) is a natural treasure as far as I’m concerned, and his festive book about Christmas is my favorite work of his.Ī Christmas Memory, as well as the short stories that follow it in this book (which flesh out the young male main character), are quintessential American holiday literature at their finest.Ī Christmas Memory is an absolute gem of a short story and a classic Christmas book to be read and reread. Summary of A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote (with Quotes)
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