The Red Ornament · a cover motif reimagined as an object to examine up close.
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Every Christmas After
On the cover of Every Christmas After, the motif is identified as “The Red Ornament.” Every Christmas, she remembers a holiday spent with a different man. They are all invited to her mother’s Christmas Eve dinner.
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The Limits of This Correspondence
The motif, its illustration, and its appearances can be compared. A resemblance proves neither that the same object has traveled nor that two stories share a continuity.
Intimacy, Family & Romance