The Christmas Pearl
By: Dorothea Benton Frank
Contributors: Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
Series: Avon fiction
Publisher: Avon Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780061438486
Description: Theodora is the matriarch of a family that has grown into "an insufferable bunch of truculent knuckleheads."  While she's finally gotten them all together in South Carolina to celebrate, this Christmas looks nothing like the extravagant homey holidays of her childhood.  Luckily someone shows up to help Theodora with pockets full of common sense and Gullah magic to make Theodora's Christmas the miracle it's meant to be. -- Publisher.
Notes: Originally published by William Morrow, 2007.

"The recipes included in the 1st ed. of the Christmas pearl originated with my immediate family."  The 2009 paperback "reprinting" includes additional recipes from family and friends for the 2009 pbk. printing. -- Author's note, p. [2] at end.