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No Christmas (The Pankhearst Singles Club Book 12) Kindle Edition

by Evangeline Jennings (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
At the age of fourteen, life is already a struggle for Abigail Torres but at least she has Shelby, her family's own Christmas miracle.

A heartwarming tale of faith and conservative family values, NO CHRISTMAS is the twelfth and final release of the 2014 Pankhearst Singles Club. Small, perfectly formed, and mad as hell.
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Nominated "Best Novella of the Year" -- Saboteur Awards, 2015

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00PNRY37G
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Starshy (December 1, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 1, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 146 KB
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Evangeline Jennings

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Evangeline Jennings is an unreliable narrator. She tells lies for fun and profit. Mostly fun.

If Evangeline was a song - and she'd really like to be, she'd be "Public Image" by PiL or possibly "You Don't Own Me" by Lesley Gore.

Born and raised in Liverpool, where they invented football and popular music, she now lives in Austin, Texas. The black sheep of her family, she comes from a long line of Californian beauty queens on her mother's side. As she so often says, Northern Scum, Southern Belle.

Evangeline watches an awful lot of movies and TV. During the break she cooks popcorn and writes stories about revenge.

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  • Laurie Weigel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well-written and poignant. Tugs on the heartstrings and also ...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2014
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    Well-written and poignant. Tugs on the heartstrings and also covers some extremely relevant women's issues.

    A must-read for everyone this year. A bit dark, but purposefully and importantly so.

    I am a Pankhearst addict!
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  • col2910
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hard-hitting tale!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2016
    Another shortish tale to bump up the reading figures and try to get me into double digits for the month.

    A spin on Dickens’ A Christmas Carol again with sections PAST (set in 2015), PRESENT (set in 2018), FUTURE.

    PAST – Poverty, we have a family worn down and in trouble. Four mouths to feed, a father working all hours every day including Christmas to provide. A miracle baby, Shelby leaving six-figure hospital bills.

    PRESENT – Our provider is dead – cancer. Our young narrator is pregnant and attending state-mandated counselling.

    FUTURE – We don’t have one.

    Powerful and emotive. A rage against a system that infringes on the rights of pregnant women to make personal choices best suited for their circumstances. In the land of the free, there is no freedom.

    In our counselling session……I had hoped – against the odds – this might be a sympathetic session. God knows I could use some help. But obviously not. Lisa Shannon’s smile is as fake as her nails, her hair color, and claim to care about me. Her eyes reveal the truth. In their cold steel gaze, I read contempt and condescension. Lisa is playing a game and cases like mine are how the bitch keep score. Those hard grey eyes dismiss me and drop back to her tablet.

    Describing the process….. obsessive detail. It’s her pornography. She leaves me feeling repulsed and guilty as hell.

    Anesthetic…….”Perhaps you should consider local anesthetic? Or would that feel too much like complicity?”

    Hard-hitting and thought provoking – an imagined near future when the Christian right hold all the aces. Watch this space……

    4.5 from 5

    Copy received from the author.
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  • Karen Eisenbrey
    5.0 out of 5 stars No sugarplums but scary good
    Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2014
    This is a Christmas story, and parts of it are heartwarming. In a nod to Dickens, it has a Past, Present, and Future. But be warned: this story is not uplifting. Much of it is heartbreaking; even more is infuriating.

    Jennings imagines a near future in which political movements now underway have won, and an ordinary working-class family endures the consequences. We first meet the protagonist, Abbie, at Christmas 2015, when she is 14. She's happy because Shelby, her family's miracle baby, is finally home. Due to pregnancy complications, Shelby had to be delivered 12 weeks premature, but now she's perfect and no one will call her an expensive mistake. The family tightens the belt and works hard to make a life for themselves. They don't have much, but they have each other, a functional, loving family. As we spend three more Christmases with Abbie, it becomes clear the impact a lack of affordable health care has on this ordinary family. Dad dies because his cancer treatment isn't covered. Without him, Mom can't keep the family home and they have to move in with relatives. Shelby's neonatal care ran to six (not covered) figures that they'll be paying at $100 a month forever. Then an unplanned pregnancy turns into a crisis because of high costs and absurd restrictions, and teenage Abbie decides to make a very public statement on Christmas Eve. The conservative mega-church pro-birth Christians in this story come off as smug and hypocritical, but their Christmas Eve service sounds genuinely moving and beautiful, which makes it all the more shocking as a setting for Abbie's statement.

    This is a moving story, an anguished story, in the end, an angry story that had to be written. If you are pro-choice, read it. If you are pro-life, read it, and think about the consequences when you try to make choices for anyone not yourself.
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  • Rachel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bold writing with purpose - a necessary read.
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2015
    Jennings isn’t afraid of offending anyone with her writing. Whether you’re pro-choice or pro-life, you’re going to come away from this story pissed off, as you should. She balances her telling with warmth and anger – a juxtaposition that perfectly elaborates reality in all of its imperfection. You’ll enjoy this book because it’ll make you feel something; better yet – you’ll react to it.

    Abbie Torres is like any of us and none of us would want to be in her shoes. She’s a victim of absurd conservatism and treated as if she’s the problem. As a reader, you witness her life. You see she’s trying to take responsibility for her situation before it further affects her and her family. In the finest of details, Jennings shows the ignorance of a society that allows a belief held by some to be forced on the whole of the population and how it ultimately destroys more than it saves. No Christmas will make you think about control and how it becomes detrimental to all involved at some point.

    This was the first of Evangeline Jennings’ work that I’d come across, but have since made my way through her other efforts. It’s safe to say I’m hooked to her style and aim to follow her work forward.
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  • Layla D. Harding
    5.0 out of 5 stars intelligent thorough review
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2015
    A masterpiece deserves a well written, intelligent thorough review. I wish I was capable of such a thing for No Christmas. As it was, I was barely capable of doing more than staring at the screen of my tablet until it went dark, awed and sickened by Evangeline Jennings story. Awed by her flawless character development and story-telling. Sickened by how, unfortunately, utterly close to reality this piece is.
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  • Angelika Rust
    5.0 out of 5 stars Read this. Trust me.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2015
    this is one of the books that make you sorry you already dished out 5 stars to other books, because you'll want to have an extra star left. Set in a dystopian future, this book really gives you the shivers, as a) said future is only a year away, b) it seems unbearably realistic. I hope we'll never get to live it.
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  • Kate Garrett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simultaneous feelings of despair & triumph...
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 11, 2015
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    My favourite thing about any Evangeline Jennings story - and even though she writes in many genres, it's a constant - is that she doesn't choose story over structure, or structure over story. No Christmas is no exception: this is set in a bleak United States of the not-so-distant future, and is written in perfect prose. Abigail is an imperfect but sympathetic protagonist throughout, and the changes as she matures are subtle but definite. A book hasn't made me this scared or angry since I read The Stepford Wives, and I'd say No Christmas is an even more relevant response to an oppressive culture in today's world - by the end, it might have even brought on some eye-leakage, simultaneous feelings of despair and triumph. This novella is not to be missed.
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  • Leigh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2017
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    Well written, to the point and no-nonsense story. A warning tale on what can happen when extreme views are allowed to rule unhindered.
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