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Tinsel

a Search for America's Christmas Present
Jan 23, 2020TheresaAJ rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Stuever, a journalist, spent 2006 exploring the Christmas phenomenon in Frisco, Texas which was experiencing a real estate boom. By focusing on three families, the author shows how Christmas plays out in different family configurations -- a young couple with no children, a single mother with three children, and an upscale nuclear family with two children. Stuever, to his almost horror, documents the excess that fuels Christmas in Frisco. 2006 turned out to be the last good Christmas as the economy faltered in 2007 and crashed in 2008 which had a big impact on the Frisco economy. The final chapters detailing what happened to the three families are fascinating. This book is also a memory trip through big-box retailers that didn't survive the 2008 crash.