A Christmas Cuento

By Sydney Dudikoff

Book Overview

Cuentos are akin to Folk Tales and passed down from one generation to the next within a community. They encompass allegories, fables, fairy tales, and trickster stories.
Unlike original literary works, cuentos are shaped by the storytellers themselves, often adapted to suit the cultural and social context of the audience. For instance, cuentos may incorporate contemporary figures such as Santa Claus to resonate with a modern audience.
In A Christmas Cuento, pianist Zach St. Johns inherits his great-grandparents' farm after his siblings, Joel and Rachel, disavow the inheritance. Zach moves from Chicago to Arizona in December to find a ramshackle Victoria without electricity and only cold water. With an advance and help from neighbors, he starts renovations. In the attic, he discovers his brother's journal annotating their Christmas twenty years earlier. He is entertained by the three Christmas Cuentos Grandpa Leo narrates.
The Cuentos evolve around classical Christmas characters: Santa, Winter Wizard, Arctic Fairies, and how snowfall transforms an arid land into a prosperous farming community. The Cuentos end unresolved, and it is up to the children to resolve them. Twenty years later, a blocked memory returns to Zach, and he realizes this was a Magical Christmas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973407493
• ISBN13: 9781973407492
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"