A wonderfully twisted collection of true Christmas stories from the author of "Running with Scissors". Of course you"ve eaten too much chocolate at Christmas... but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot-stuffed Santa? You"ve seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement? You"ve woken up with a hangover...but have you ever woken up next to Kris Kringle himself? Augusten Burroughs has, and in this caustically funny, nostalgic, poignant, and moving collection, he recounts Christmases past and present - as only he can. With gimlet-eyed wit and illuminated prose, Augusten shows how the holidays bring out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.