This heartwarming novel is the first illustrated holiday gift book for adults that deals with an interfaith family celebrating both Christmas & Hanukkah. Claire is Jewish; her husband, Paul, is a fallen-away Catholic. Claire takes their two children to a reform Jewish temple, but they observe the Christian holidays, too - partly for Paul & partly for Paul's mother, Teresa, a devout catholic who is Claire's dearest friend. Then, just as the holidays approach, Claire's five year-old-son gets sick. As the weeks pass & he doesn't recover, Claire is reminded of the uncertain diagnosis of her own mother's final illness. She wants to lean on Teresa--but how can she, when their religious differences are so deep? Have her own religious decisions been a mistake? This moving book, illustrated with eleven black-&-white drawings, will touch anyone who has ever known an interfaith family--their own or a friend's--& anyone who has ever worried about the fate of a child.Award-winning author Ellyn Bache (Willa Cater Fiction Prize recipient for short fiction; best known for her novel, Safe Passage, that became a Susan Sarandon feature film) is jewish, married to a man from a large Catholic family. They have four children.