The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman Capote 
Capote’s autobiographical story takes the reader back to his Alabama roots and the family of distant cousins who raised him. Miss Sook, a spinster cousin who calls him Buddy, is his best friend. The year is 1932. The story is in homage to this innocent and wise lady, who, like Buddy, lives off the generosity of the same cousins in their large home. Thanksgiving Day, and especially dinner, is a much-anticipated event. Thanksgiving is when distant families pack up their children and homemade dinner treats, leave the isolation of their rural lives and come to the big house for a day of reunion and feasting.

Capote’s writing is direct and unaffected. We see the characters through the eyes of Buddy, a precocious yet sympathetic boy. At the time of the story, Buddy is in the second grade and is constantly beset by the class bully. The bully, a boy who had to repeat the second grade more than once, is twelve years old. Buddy’s friend and confidante, Miss Sook, knows of the bully’s troubled family life. She takes matters into her own hands and invites the bully to their Thanksgiving dinner. Therein lies the tale. It is a story of bravery, cowardice, forgiveness, redemption, and thanksgiving, as powerful today as when it was first published in McCall’s in 1967.

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Measures: 9.75 x 6.75
Bound: Blue cardboard sleeve w/ photo. The book is done on cream boards with a red linen spine with/ gold lettering, green inner boards, and a stiff spine. The pages are in excellent condition. The overall book condition is excellent vintage condition; the outer sleeve has minor discoloration but is in excellent condition.
 
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