Wishin' and Hopin'

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โ€œThis book is a bonbon for any baby boomer. . . . Lamb gets Felixโ€™s voice just right, and he does a spot-on job of evoking the special joys and trials of parochial school in the โ€˜60โ€™s...Put a bow on this book and warm somebodyโ€™s heart.โ€ โ€”ย St. Petersburg Times

Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and Sheโ€™s Come Undone, delivers a holiday treat with Wishinโ€™ and Hopinโ€™โ€”an unforgettable novella that captures the warmth and joy of the holiday season.

It's 1964. LBJ and Lady Bird are in the White House, Meet the Beatles is on everyoneโ€™s turntable, and ten-year-old Felix Funicello (distant cousin of the iconic Annette!) is doing his best to navigate fifth gradeโ€”easier said than done when scary movies still give you nightmares and you bear a striking resemblance to a certain adorable cartoon boy. But there are several things young Felix can depend on: the birds and bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas heโ€™s never going to forget.

Poignant and hilarious, in a vein similar to Jean Shepherdโ€™s A Christmas Story and David Sedarisโ€™s The Santaland Diaries, Lambโ€™s Christmas tale focuses on a feisty parochial school fifth grader named Felix Funicelloโ€”a distant cousin of the iconic Annette!

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Wally Lamb is the author of five New York Times bestselling novels: Sheโ€™s Come Undone, I Know This Much Is True, The Hour I First Believed, Wishinโ€™ and Hopinโ€™, and We Are Water. His first two works of fiction, Sheโ€™s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, were both #1 New York Times bestsellers and selections of Oprahโ€™s Book Club. Lamb edited Couldnโ€™t Keep It to Myself, Iโ€™ll Fly Away, and You Donโ€™t Know Me, three volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a womenโ€™s prison in Connecticut, where he has been a volunteer facilitator for two decades. He lives in Connecticut.

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