Star bright
Andrew M. Greeley
It's beginning to look a lot like an American Christmas: irritable,
unpleasant relatives; horrible weather, miserable travel--and one Jack
Flannigan, "a harmless American of Irish origins," who is reluctantly but
totally falling in love--with Odessa Tatitana Alexseevna Skuskulya, a
young woman from Russia who's studying at Harvard. Of course he feels
sorry for her, spending Christmas alone in a country not her own. So, he
invites her home to Chicago for the holiday. Though it isn't even
Christmas in the Russian Orthodox calendar, she accepts. And nothing will
ever again be quite the same for Jack Flannigan.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books.