A Christmas Blizzard - Garrison Keillor

The inimitable Garrison Keillor spins "a Christmas tale that
makes Dickens seem unimaginative by comparison" (Charlotte Creative
Loafing)

Snow is falling all across the Midwest as James Sparrow, a country- bumpkin-turned-energy-drink-tycoon, and his wife awaken in their sky- rise apartment overlooking Chicago. Even down with the stomach bug,
Mrs. Sparrow yearns to see The Nutcracker while James yearns
only to escape-the faux-cheer, the bitter cold, the whole Christmas
season. An urgent phone call from his hometown of Looseleaf, North
Dakota, sends James into the midst of his lunatic relatives and a
historic blizzard. As he hunkers weather the storm, the electricity
goes out and James is visited by a parade of figures who deliver him an
epiphany worthy of the season, just in time to receive Mrs. Sparrow's
wonderful Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor's holiday farce is the
perfect gift for the millions of fans who tune into A Prairie Home
Companion every week.

Garrison Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, and graduated from the University of Minnesota-one more English major. The writer and host of A Prairie Home Companion, he is also the author of the bestselling Lake Wobegon novels. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and New York City.