About This Book
Family is always there to help you pick yourself up and start all over again. Family--and Sunday Dinner. At the end of the day, everyone just wants to know they have a place at the table... I am alone on Christmas Eve and mytable is empty. There are no more Sunday Dinners for the O'Neal Family. Theevents of this past year have made certain of that. Oh, those events--thingswhich began to happen and take place during our weekly Sunday Dinners as farback as last January... Sunday Dinner began for Paddy and Evelyn O'Neal before they even arrived in Chicago. On the train all those years ago before they were even married, as they sat close to one another, she told him about the Sunday Dinners they would have. When we haveour family I want meals to be special! she said to him, her slim young faceflawless and full of hope as they left for Chicago. I want every single weekto be a holiday, Paddy! We'll do SundayDinner each week!He nodded, wondering what they were going off to. The two of them sat huddled together on thetrain, her sisters in the seats behind them. Sunday Dinnereach week, Evelyn said again, her head with the red-blonde curls against hisshoulder. Paddy nodded.The train moved on in a steady stream of movement, taking them away fromall that had been--the terrible lives she and her sisters had. Together they made their way toward a future theywould build together--and Sunday Dinner... Get to know and love the O'Neal Family as they gather on Erie Street, in Chicago, each week for Sunday Dinner-- during a year which will change all of their lives forever.In the absence of Sunday Dinner there is silence.Their voices nearby do not surround me. I am alone on Christmas Eve and mytable is empty. There are no more Sunday Dinners for the O'Neal Family. Theevents of this past year have made certain of that. Oh, those events--thingswhich began to happen and take place during our weekly Sunday Dinners as farback as last January...Find out what has happened to Sunday Dinner for the O'Neal Family. We've set a place, just for you....
