Abstract:
The Christmas Curmudgeon is a family story full of warmth and great humor. Follow the brothers Jenkins from Thanksgiving Day (the more you eat, the more you can eat) to Christmas Day as they plaster the mall with anti-Christmas posters, start an anti-Christmas card campaign and address the world with their iconoclastic ideas about Christmas. After meeting two Vietnam veterans deep in the North Carolina mountains and presenting a soap box rant at the local park, Henry Jenkins suffers a heart attack. The two brothers are moved to confront themselves and change their attitudes toward life and toward Christmas.