Praise for The Christmas Orphans Club : "Becca Freeman gives a much-needed update to classic holiday tales. Told over the course of eleven Christmases, this witty and heartfelt debut tracks a group of four young New Yorkers as their friendship solidifies into a chosen family, one with its own traditions, tensions, and drama. It's a whip-smart story of modern love, letting go, and growing up." --Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the Lake "A fabulous festive read about found family. I loved it from the first sentence." --Sophie Cousens, New York Times bestselling author of Before I Do "I'm completely in love with this book! The Christmas Orphans Club is a beautiful story of friendship with laugh-out-loud dialogue and characters you can't stop thinking about. Becca Freeman's debut is witty, heartwarming, and hilarious and the most delightful thing you'll read all year." --Jennifer Close, New York Times bestselling author of Marrying the Ketchups "Freeman's writing is filled with wit and insight, and her dialogue crackles.
Beneath the abundant humor and charm is a thoughtful exploration of friendship, tradition, and the challenges of growing old." --Grant Ginder, bestselling author of The People We Hate at the Wedding and Let's Not Do That Again "If you adore Christmas and loved Friends , then this is the perfect book for you. I would happily abandon my husband and kids to spend Christmas in New York with Hannah, Finn, Theo and Priya. A festive, funny, hug of a novel about love in all its forms." --Clare Pooley, New York Times bestselling author of Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting "Funny and wise--this totally unexpected story of chosen family warmed me from the inside out. I absolutely adored it." --Annabel Monaghan, author of Nora Goes Off Script " The Christmas Orphans has everything you could want in a holiday book-treat: sweetness, laughs, and delicious rom-com moments that'll make you jump up and yell, 'Kiss him! Kiss him!' Thank you, Becca Freeman, for an ensemble cast so lovable I wish they were real and could be my friends." --Mary Laura Philpott, author of Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives "Set in the holiday glow of a luminously rendered New York City, The Christmas Orphans Club is a big-hearted, poignant, page-turning novel about the chosen families that sustain us.
Becca Freeman is a writer who truly knows what it means to be a good friend, and she perfectly captures the tensions that arise within a tight-knit group when we make room for romantic love. With this dazzling debut, Freeman is the heir apparent to the mantle of sophisticated, feel-good fiction. I will read anything she writes." --John Glynn, author of Out East: Memoir of a Montauk Summer "A hilarious and poignant contemporary fable." -- Seattle Times "Freeman's take on how relationships evolve is full of feeling." -- Publishers Weekly.