The acclaimed author of Finn digs down to the bones of a classic and creates must-read modern literature (Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author) with this clever riff ( The Washington Post ) on Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley .
Marley was dead, to begin with, Charles Dickens tells us at the beginning of A Christmas Caro.