The Christmas Cookie Club

The Christmas Cookie Club.

By author Ann Pearlman

Release date October 20, 2009

A compelling blend of "Desperate Housewives" meets The Friday Night Knitting club, The Christmas Cookie Club is brimming with sisterly love and conflict as well as the trials and tribulations that buffet its finely etched characters. This novel is about the paths Marnie and her friends have traveled, the absolute joy they take in life and love despite the decisions they've regretted, the hard choices and amends they've had to make, and the sacrifices along the way. Ultimately, The Christmas Cookie Club is every women's story. As you read about Marnie and her friends, their struggles and triumphs, what makes them laugh and what makes them cry, you'll see yourself and some of the ingredients of your own story. Celebrating courage and joy in spite of hard times and honoring the importance of women's friendships as well as the embracing bonds of community.

The Christmas cookie club meets on the first Monday in December, a sacrosanct evening in which they exchange holiday cookies, kick off the season, and, most important, reaffirm their commitment to one another. For sixteen years, they've shared their secrets, their passions, their yearnings, and their disillusionment, comforting each other through devastating loss and revealing in each other's blessing. "Head cookie bitch" Marnie hosts the party in her Michigan home each year and as narrator she delivers her friends' back-stories. Marnie met each of the women on her own unexpected journey from a young hippie, to a widow and single mother, then divorcee to soon-to-be grandmother. Each of the women represent a snapshot of her life, and her friends a testament to her history. Ann Pearlman has written a novel that speaks to us all.