The holiday season is a perfect moment to reflect on personal growth, social change, and work still to be done. Containing stories written between 1880 and 1953 by both celebrated and unheralded Black authors, "A Treasury of African American Christmas Stories" deftly weaves holiday-themed literary threads like faith, unconditional love, and remembrance of one's heritage. It also hums with a powerful amount of energy leveled against social forces committed to division, such as violence, poverty, and racism. Readers of any background will appreciate this powerful, engaging, history-steeped collection that calls on the better angels of our nature and encourages us to look both outward and inside this holiday season.
