Fall on Your Knees by Brad Zellar and Paul D'Amato

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For many Americans, Christmas is the ultimate emotional Rorschach test. No other time of the year offers up such a conflicted mess of joy and despair, hope and disappointment, wrenching loneliness and communal warmth, nostalgia and regret. It is the season of stories, including many of the genuine whoppers of our culture—A virgin birth? Hosts of angels? Santa Claus? Flying reindeer? Elves? Talking animals? A procession of ghosts? Yes, they’re all there in the stories of Christmas that continue to be passed down from generation to generation. And the mixed messages and emotions of the holiday are eternally present in the literature, films, and music that alternately celebrate the joy of the season and wallow in the darkness and melancholy of what is so often the most complicated day of the year.

Both Brad Zellar and Paul D’Amato have been staring down the contradictions and fraught emotions of the holidays for decades, and Fall on Your Knees brings together a selection of some of their Christmas stories and photos for the first time.

Soft cover
Perfect bound
6 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches, 82 pages
ISBN 979-8-9928212-2-2