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An Almost Perfect Christmas

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From the author of Love, Nina — a hilarious ode to the joys and insanities of the most wonderful time of the year.
Every family has its Christmas traditions and memories, and Nina Stibbe's is no exception. From her kitchen-phobic mother's annual obsession with roasting the perfect turkey (an elusive dream to this day) to the quest for a perfect teacher gift (memorable for all the wrong reasons); from the tragic Christmas tree ("is it meant to look like that?") to the acceptable formula for thank-you letters (must include Health Inquiry and Interesting Comment), Nina Stibbe captures all that is magical and maddening about the holidays.
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      October 15, 2018
      English humorist, novelist (Paradise Lodge?, 2016), and author of the delightful epistolary memoir, Love, Nina? (2012), Stibbe has a few words for people who love and hate Christmas in this little collection. Essays cover, for instance, Stibbe's practical gift-giving advice ("If?like me?you have a huge, materialistic family and/or a circle of fairly shallow friends, it's probable that you find Christmas shopping slightly overwhelming as well as expensive, time-consuming, financially ruinous, worrying and stressful"); the rules of Christmas-letter writing of yore ("People didn't feel the need to write the actual facts"); or the Christmas party burned into memory as a not-so-silent night, owing to a simple playlist miscalculation. In the handful of short stories scattered among the essays, an eager student gravely misjudges an over-the-holidays, extra-credit assignment, and a family gets a little too close to their Christmas turkey. Stibbe concludes with a Christmas glossary, rife with references from the preceding pieces and hilarious cross-references to itself. Funny, smart, sweet, and tender, this is greater than a gift book and readable any time of year.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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