One Room, One Hundred Thanksgivings

Description

In 1926, a blue bowl arrives in a newly occupied Los Angeles dining room. Over the next hundred Thanksgivings, children grow, chairs are repaired, families move in and out, and the skyline beyond the windows changes.

One Room, One Hundred Thanksgivings returns to that same room every year from 1926 to 2025. Each scene pairs a short story with an original visual reconstruction, tracing American family life through meals, conversations, familiar objects, and the marks people leave on a home.

Across 204 pages, the book follows four households through a century of change. A recipe card, a damaged chair, and pencil marks on a doorjamb carry pieces of earlier lives into later ones.

Created for readers who love family stories, American history, and illustrated gift books, this is a work of historically researched fiction. Its characters and private events are fictional or composite; its images are original reconstructions, not archival photographs.