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The Christmas Shoes
Donna VanLiere

The Christmas Shoes

Christmas Hope #1
9780312289515
| Hardcover
St. Martin's Press | 2001
Dewey VAN
LC Classification 4314

Genre

  • Adult Fiction
  • Christmas Stories

Subject

  • Christian Fiction
  • Christmas Stories
  • Fiction / Religious
  • Serendipity
  • Terminally Ill

Plot

Robert is a successful attorney who has everything in life -- and nothing at all. Focused on professional achievement and material rewards, Robert is on the brink of losing his marriage. He has lost sight of his wife, Kate, their two daughters, and ultimately himself. Eight year old Nathan has a beloved mother, Maggie, whom he is losing to cancer. But Nathan and his family are building a simple yet full life, and struggling to hold onto every moment they have together. A chance meeting on Christmas Eve brings Robert and Nathan together -- he is shopping for a family he hardly knows and Nathan is shopping for a mother he is soon to lose. In this one encounter, their lives are forever altered as Robert learns an important lesson: sometimes the smallest things can make all the difference.