Pump Up Your Book Presents The True Meaning of Myrrh: A Christmas Day Virtual Book Publicity Tour

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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Manderino’s THE TRUE MEANING OF MYRRH: A CHRISTMAS DAY virtual book tour December 5 – 9!

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Inside the Book

Title: The True Meaning of Myrrh
Author: John Manderino
Publisher: Ice Cube Press
Pages: 101
Genre: Fiction

Set in suburban Chicago during the 1960’s, The True Meaning of Myrrh is an amusing, but gritty, look at the holiday season as it used to be. The nostalgia classics: turkey, snowball fights, droopy Christmas trees, and midnight Mass are leavened with a drunken Santa, oedipal anguish, prostitutes and an aggressive midget.

One brother can’t shake his profound disappointment at receiving slippers when he thought the box held hockey gloves. Meanwhile his older brother receives a tape recorder and is trying to capture all the “magic” in his “special holiday broadcast” with mixed results. The boys’ politically divided parents have a serious falling-out about the Holy Family versus the welfare state and aren’t talking.

And then there are the wounds that only family can inflict on each other like the too-clever comment that devastates their Santa-dressed uncle.

Will Len manage to rise above the bitter disappointment? Will his parents reach across the aisle for the sake of the day? Will Sam learn a Christmas lesson that doesn’t fit smoothly into his “holiday broadcast”? In The True Meaning of Myrrh, this and other questions get answered, including what is myrrh, anyway.

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Meet the Author

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JOHN MANDERINO grew up in the Chicago area but now lives in Maine with his wife Marie, where he teaches college writing and provides coaching and editing services to other writers. He has three novels, two short stories collections and a memoir published by Chicago Review (Academy Chicago), and a Christmas novel published by Ice Cube Press. John has also written plays that have been performed at theater festivals and other venues. A stage version of his memoir Crying at Movies was produced.

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Tour Schedule

Monday, December 5 – Book Review at Laura’s Interests

Tuesday, December 6 – Book Review at Books Dreams Life

Wednesday, December 7 – Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

Thursday, December 8 – Book Review at 3 Partners in Shopping

Friday, December 9 – Interview at The Writer’s Life

 


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