The Noel Diary

June 15, 2017

There's little holiday cheer for woebegone Jason Chercher, who's confronting the death of his estranged mother even as his wife walks out the door. Sorting through his mother's belongings, he learns that she fell into a deep depression in his early childhood and left his upbringing to a young, unwed mother named Noel, who lived with his family. Tracking down Noel as a means of understanding the past is the Christmas gift he gives himself, as Evans continues the holiday tradition he started almost single-handedly with The Christmas Box.

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