Crooked Crossby Sally Carson This is a book to keep. Written in the early 1930s it opens with the Kluger family, mother, father and their three adult children, coming home from church on Christmas Eve. It's an idyllic scene as they chat to friends and catch up with neighbours. Daughter, Lexa, is engaged to be married to Moritz, who is treated as one of the family. But, beneath the happiness is a frustration at the economic situation and the lack of employment.