{"product_id":"the-star-that-holds-curt-norman-9798270697679","title":"The Star That Holds: The Legend of Fondos Hayes","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn a winter night in 1959, the Hayes family gathers in base housing at Cherry Point as a silver aluminum Christmas tree casts slow constellations around their living room. At its crown shines a hand-worked star cut from the skin of a battered Corsair-carried home from the Pacific by a welder named Fondos Hayes and finished at the kitchen table with sandpaper, patience, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a wash-day name in rural North Carolina to wartime airstrips stitched across the ocean, \u003ci\u003eThe Star That Holds: The Legend of Fondos Hayes\u003c\/i\u003e follows a man who builds not only airplanes but a life-steady, humble, and luminous. Told in tender, connected vignettes that move between Guadalcanal heat and Carolina frost, the story traces how a scrap of aluminum becomes a family legend, how a color wheel turns four small seasons in a single room, and how a promise keeps shining long after the power's gone quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarm, wry, and reverent about the ordinary, this is a story about the craft of repair-fixing planes, mending days, and making light out of what the world leaves behind. For anyone who's ever believed that remembering is a kind of living, the Hayes family's Christmas star will feel like coming home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Curt Norman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798270697679\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.13d","brand":"Curt Norman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997198594303,"sku":"9798270697679","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-star-that-holds-curt-norman-9798270697679","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}