00870cam a2200217 4500 43608357 TxAuBib 20021206120000.0 ||||||s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 96016116 9781565123762 pbk. $9.95 156512376X pbk. $9.95 TxAuBib Smith, Lee. The Christmas letters : a novella / by Lee Smith. Chapel Hill, N.C : Algonquin Books, 2002. 126 p ; 19 cm. From 1944 to 1995, the story of three generations of women as they partake of the tradition of catching up on family news once a year with the annual Christmas letter. A close-up of everyday life spanning half a century. Christmas stories. Epistolary fiction.