Author: Glenn Beck
Published: 2008
Genres: Autobiographical Fiction, if there can be such a thing
Rating: 3
Summary
When Eddie was twelve years old, all he wanted for Christmas was a bike. Life had gotten harder — and money tighter — since his father died and the family bakery closed. But Eddie dreamed that somehow his mother would find a way to have his dream bike gleaming beside their modest Christmas tree that magical morning. What he got from her instead was a sweater. "A stupid, handmade, ugly sweater" that young Eddie left in a crumpled ball on the floor of his room.
Scarred deeply by the realization that kids don't always get what they want, and too young to understand that he already owned life's most valuable treasures, that Christmas morning was the beginning of Eddie's dark and painful journey on the road to manhood.
Review
This book reads a bit like a parable, and it is somewhat overdramatic and emotionally manipulative in making it's points. But it is an easy Christmastime read. And the prose flows reasonably well considering there are two ghost writers on the project.
