Sedaris is to Christmas as Phillip Roth is to adolescent and/or jewish angst. And, if I have to explain, you most likely wouldn't understand and I'm not going to be the one to make you. Suffice it to say, this book _will_ make you laugh. If it does not, I'll buy you lunch. Now, I won't eat this lunch with you because it would be blindingly apparent to me that you are one of the lamest and thickest humans scraping around this planet but for this I will buy you lunch and because of this, you will eat it alone.