In the StoryEvery Christmas After
This year, every one of her impossible Christmases has an invitation to Christmas Eve dinner. Camille Delmas remembers holidays with different men, in lives that cannot all have been hers. Each memory brings its tenderness, its awkwardness, its promises. Her mother, meanwhile, has mostly invited too many people to the table.
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Thomas. He vaguely remembered a Thomas from an old conversation—perhaps an ex, perhaps a family friend. With Camille, the distinction had always seemed administrative.Read the excerpt ↗