This is a lighthearted look at Christmas! As the song says, 'It's the most wonderful time of the year'. And the weirdest. Friends and neighbours, married couples and lovers, families and countrymen, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren gather together and celebrate Christmas - Hanukkah - the Winter Solstice - Humbug Day. And for every familiar carol sung and every turkey dinner eaten and every red stocking hung, there are curses hurled, and herrings beheaded, and lumps of coal regifted. And that's just the beginning. It includes: weird holiday food & drink, dinner and breakfast traditions, toasts; unusual decorations and celebrations; shopping idiosyncrasies, presents from hell, bizarre gift exchanges, familial return policies; and, wild and wacky variations on the Santa Claus theme.
- ISBN10 1599214199
- ISBN13 9781599214191
- Publish Date 1 October 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 August 2014
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
- Imprint The Lyons Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English