Star Bright

Father Andrew M. Greeley tells a Christmas story as warm as a loving hearta book to cherish.Its beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: unpleasant relatives, miserable travel, a slobbering dogand one harmless American of Irish origins, Jack Flanigan, who is reluctantly falling in love with Odessa Tatiana Alekseevna Shushulya, a young Russian woman studying at Harvard.One Tuesday, Jack meets her in Harvard Square, showing off the Russian language hes been studying. Its not the urge to talk Russian that moves him, though; its her spectacular, dark-eyed beauty. Shes spending Christmas alone in a foreign country so, of course, he feels sorry for her. He makes a big mistake: he invites her home to Chicago for the holiday. Even though it isnt Christmas in the Russian Orthodox calendar, she accepts!What happens when she gets to Chicago, caught in the American maelstrom of commercialized Yuletide? Enough to say, theres a tree, and a feast, and midnight Mass, and a gaggle of contentious Flanigans of all ageswho have the merriest Christmas everand nothing will ever be quite the same for any of them.Especially lucky Jack Flanigan.Greeley, Andrew M. is the author of 'Star Bright ', published 2002 under ISBN 9780765305626 and ISBN 0765305623.