Review: Touching Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 25, 2013
The depression has hit the country hard and left the Shoemaker family hungry and homeless with another baby on the way. Alice wonders what kind of Christmas little James and David will have when Henry comes to their tent home with the news he’s found a job as a sharecropper.While Alice yearns for the things she once had, she makes their life comfortable in the tin roof shanty they call home. She papers the walls with newspapers to keep out the cold and manages to make meals for her family using the fireplace and a Dutch oven all the while her pregnancy growing heavy.Alice makes new friends far away from the family and acquaintances she’d always known and she learns through their new minister no one is to blame for what has happened to them. The Shoemaker family receives many blessings and through the little boys’ adventures find a way to have a wonderful Christmas.Ms. Havel paints a beautiful story of a time in American history when people struggled to exist. Farms were lost and families torn apart, but through faith, Christmas  comes to the Shoemakers.