The Christmas Star by Maryann McFadden

We are excited to host Maryann McFadden for a reading of her newly published fifth novel, The Christmas Star.

is a holiday romance sure to touch the hearts of anyone who reads it. While it’s fiction, McFadden drew on the history of the star, and her own connection with it, to create the story of a woman who is determined to get the star lit again after it is destroyed by a superstorm.“I hope the people in my hometown fall in love with these characters whose lives, like so many here, have been moved and inspired by the star. I include so many Hackettstown traditions, like our Hometown Holiday and Santa Parade. I also include the history of the star, which was originally erected and taken down by volunteers each December and was a difficult and often brutally cold labor of love. In the beginning, they used wood from old…