A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.
Thirteen-year-old Joel Knox is sent to live with his father in rural Alabama after the death of his mother, but instead is met by a sullen stepmother, eccentric cousin, and defiant girl named Idabel who offers Joel the love and approval he never received from his parents.
Presents a collection of short fiction by twentieth-century author Truman Capote and includes "A Tree of Night," "House of Flowers," and "A Christmas Memory.".
Collects three autobiographical fiction stories by Truman Capote, two of them telling of holidays spent with distant relatives in Alabama, and one recalling a Christmas spent in New Orleans with his estranged father.
A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.
