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A boy recalls his life with an elderly relative in rural Alabama in
the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about
dealing with a bully from school.
2. The Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne
 "Strikingly different since childhood and leading dissimilar lives now,
sisters Frances and Cynthia have managed to remain "devoted"--as long as
they stay on opposite coasts. When Frances arranges to host
Thanksgiving at her idyllic New England farmhouse, she envisions a happy
family reunion, one that will include the sisters' long-estranged
father. Cynthia, however, doesn't understand how Frances can ignore the
past their father's presence revives, a past that includes suspicions
about their mother's death twenty-five years earlier. As Thanksgiving
Day arrives, with a houseful of guests looking forward to dinner, the
sisters continue to struggle with different versions of a shared past,
their conflict escalating to a dramatic, suspenseful
climax."--Publisher's website.
3. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
 With "The Sportswriter," in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels
that ten years later--after "Independence Day"--won both the Pulitzer
Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, Frank Bascombe's story resumes,
in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the
balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a
post-nuclear family get-together.
4. A Catered Thanksgiving: A Mystery with Recipes by Isis Crawford
 The proprietors of A Little Taste of Heaven, their Longely, N.Y.,
catering company, prepare a Thanksgiving feast for Scrooge-like
fireworks manufacturer Monty Field and his family at the Field mansion.
When Monty comes into the kitchen to test the roasting turkey, Bernie
and Libby watch in horror as Monty taps the pop-up button in the bird's
breast and the turkey explodes, blowing off the top of his head. Libby
fears their stuffing made the turkey explode, but they soon learn that
there was plenty of rivalry among the assembled family members, any one
of whom had reason to want Monty dead. A heavy snowstorm ensures the
suspects stay put as the sisters start to investigate. That their
father, Sean, was on bad terms with the victim complicates their task.
The action builds to more fireworks and a dramatic rescue--Publisher's
Weekly.
5. Thanksgiving: A Novel in Celebration of America by Terry Coleman
Chronicles the life of Wolsey Lowell, a young, liberally educated
Englishwoman, who marries a Massachusetts Puritan minister and finds
herself struggling against the rigidity of Puritan life--Google Books.
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