Holidays on Ice a sharecropper's wife

a sharecropper's wife

literalistic

her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening

even as the oceans rise

the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit

Holidays on Ice a sharecropper's wifeDavid Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favoritesas the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick or treaters ("Us and Them"); the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to the French ("Jesus Shaves"); what to do when you've been locked out in a snowstorm ("Let It Snow"); the puzzling