"Bull Markham put up the Christmas tree every year on December first. Unpacking it from the long box that was stored in the attic. The center pole, the rotating stand that buzzed as it circled, one complete rotation every two minutes. Bull inserted the hundred and fifteen prongs with aluminum foil branches frilly with aluminum needles." "Good Forever"

James W. Hall is the author of seventeen novels, the most recent of which is Dead Last.

Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gables for a Blue Christmas Party this Saturday. December 10 at 7 p.m.

If you can't make the event, you can still buy the book here.

John Dufresne