Illustrated by Phyllis London

This book came about because of my love for Christmas, its music, its celebration of some “best of us” that exists beyond the personal measuring tools we’ve concocted to call our work-a-day world the “good” or “successful” life. I believe there’s not one of us that don’t get stopped in their tracks when a song that accompanied a formative story of our lives - love, adventure or sadness - plays out of the blue. Ever since I first walked into the living room where my dad would play his classical and popular LPs in India where I grew up, the melodies, harmonies, voices and lyrics of music made sense of the sentences that rattled out of a noisy world each day.