You Better Not Cry

You've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas... but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot-tall wax 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 book, You Better Not Cry, he recounts Christmases past and present—as only he can. With gimlet-eyed wit and brilliant prose, Augusten shows how the holiday brings out the worst in us and sometimes, just sometimes, the very, very best.