Title: Evergreen tidings from the Baumgartners
Description: Violet Baumgartner has opened her annual holiday letter the same way for the past three decades. And this year she's going to throw her husband, Ed, a truly perfect retirement party, one worthy of memorializing in her upcoming letter. But the event becomes a disaster when, in front of two hundred guests, Violet learns her daughter Cerise has been keeping a shocking secret from her, shattering Violet's carefully constructed world.
Subjects: Family secrets, Retirement, Letters, Christmas stories, Fiction, Husbands, Parties, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, family life, Fiction, humorous, Fiction, humorous, general