My Mom and I joined a Christmas Reading challenge, and this might be one of the first books I have finished for the challenge. We are to read 5 Christmas books by Christmas (or something like that... actually I think it is 5 holiday, but whatever). Christmas at Harrington's by Melody Carlson is a short ( 167 pages) book about a woman that is released from prison after wrongfully serving a prison sentence for embezzlement. She decides not to "go home" but to start a new life in the town of New Haven. The book is a sweet telling of her journey "back into civilization" in which she is embraced and helped by some and shunned by others. In the true sense of character development, the author does a nice job of creating the character of Lena and has her fully develop and change into a more confident and Godly character by the end of the book. It is a season job at Harrington Department store as Mrs. Claus that allows Lena to go through this metamorphosis.
This was a quick read, and a very simple story telling style that makes it great to read in an afternoon or so. I did keep flipping to the back of the book to see if this is a Christian fiction writer, but her bio never really said and I didn't have time to look it up. Through the character of Lena there is a lot of soul search about God specifically. I didn't find it bothersome, just interesting.
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