In Skipping Christmas, Grisham introduces the Kranks as a typical suburban family that decide to celebrate the holiday season in a not so typical way. After a sad farewell to their young daughter Blair, who has joined the Peace Corps and will be gone over the holidays, Luther takes the opportunity to review the expense of the past Christmas. When he discovers that last Christmas cost over $6,000, Luther makes the decision to skip Christmas and convinces his wife to instead join him on a 10 day cruise.
At first the plan seems flawless, until friends and neighbors get wind of his grand scheme to ignore the holiday season and go on a Caribbean vacation. This news does not go over well with the community and the Kranks spend the month before Christmas hiding from pesky neighbors, dodging salespeople, and standing up to friends and co-workers that put the pressure on them to participate in the holiday season. Finally, when the Kranks appear to be on the home stretch just hours before they are to depart for their vacation, something much unexpected happens and ultimately reawakens the Christmas spirit in Luther and Nora.
- What do you think of Luther’s plan for “skipping Christmas” and do you feel he was justified in all the decisions he made in effort to completely ignore the holidays?
- Did you agree with all of Luther’s views regarding Christmas or do you think he was being a little extreme?
2 comments:
I listened to this book and enjoyed the reader but had a hard time getting into the spirit of it at first. I thought the plan was farfetched and extreme (who would not tell their child even if she was in Peru.) However, I eventually got into the spirit of it enough to enjoy the end where it all falls apart and together at the same time and Luther does his very good deed. Happy Holidays to one and all.
Yes, I agree there are parts that are very far fetched, but I thought were also funny at the same time. It did bother me that they went through all the trouble to go on the cruise and then forget all about it when their daughter decides to come home. I think I would have just told my daughter the truth and gone on the cruise!
I did like the ending and felt that Luther did the right thing in giving the cruise away to someone who needed and would appreciate it more.
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