The Christmas Pig

A Fable

Kinky Friedman

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• eBook ISBN:
  9781416543459
• Year: 2006

It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell. King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, the date is mere weeks away, and he still has not yet found his painter. The king decides to take a chance on a peculiar, mute boy whose artistic genius and clairvoyance are rumored throughout the kingdom. He sends three valiant, if begrudging, knights to seek out the boy in the remote countryside. Finally, they find Benjamin -- and he is, indeed, peculiar. Nobody knows if the child is up to the task, but the king's Christmas tradition -- and Benjamin himself -- might just be saved by a Christmas miracle that comes in the form of a very special pig -- who is rather peculiar herself.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Colophon
• By the Same Author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Dedication
• Chapter One Where Are Feinberg’s Shoes?
• Chapter Two The Mermaid
• Chapter Three The Bridge
• Chapter Four The Magical Boy
• Chapter Five Leaving Home
• Chapter Six The Journey
• Chapter Seven The Pregnant Sweetheart
• Chapter Eight The Man on the Bridge
• Chapter Nine A Magical Boy in King Jonjo’s Court
• Chapter Ten The King I
• Chapter Eleven Uncle and Son
• Chapter Twelve A Conversation in a Dream
• Chapter Thirteen The Horse
• Chapter Fourteen The Cow
• Chapter Fifteen The Lamb
• Chapter Sixteen The Rooster
• Chapter Seventeen The Dog, the Cat, and the Three Wise Men
• Chapter Eighteen Jesus, Joseph, and Mary
• Chapter Nineteen A Christmas Pig
• Chapter Twenty An Empty Canvas
• Chapter Twenty-One The Forest
• Chapter Twenty-Two The Midnight Mass
• Chapter Twenty-Three The Angels
• About The Author