Review of Iris by Nancy Springer
5 Stars
“Iris” is a sad but winning story, which left me with the
kind of lingering feeling I get from reading O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.”
The narrator is a solitary elderly lady, who lost daughter Iris in an accident
at age seven, lost her husband when he was only fifty-four, and now has given
up on knickknacks, memories, and Christmas. But some inexplicable impulse makes
her take up “collecting,” and via that impulse, she finds true Christmas
happiness-and hope.
I reviewed an e-book copy from the publisher, Untreed Reads,
via Goodreads Group Making Connections.
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