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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Hank Stuever:  book signing and discussion\nEvent U
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 \nBrazos Bookstore is pleased to present Hank Stuever\, who signs and disc
 usses his book\, Tinsel: A Search for America's Christmas Present.\nIn Tin
 sel: A Search for America's Christmas Present\, Hank Stuever turns his une
 rring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco\, Texas\, a subu
 rb at once all-American and completely itself\, to tell the story of the n
 ation's most over-the-top celebration: Christmas. Stuever starts the narra
 tive as so many start the Christmas season: standing in line with the peop
 le waiting to purchase flat-screen TVs on Black Friday. From there he foll
 ows three of Frisco's true holiday believers as they navigate through the 
 Nativity and all its attendant crises.\nTammie Parnell\, an eternally opti
 mistic suburban mom\, is the proprietor of 'Two Elves with a Twist\,' a co
 mpany that decorates other people's big houses for Christmas. Jeff and Bri
 dgette Trykoski own that house every town has: the one with the visible-fr
 om-space\, most awe-inspiring Christmas lights. And single mother Caroll C
 avazos just hopes that the life-affirming moments of Christmas might overc
 ome the struggles of the rest of the year. Stuever's portraits of this hap
 py\, megachurchy\, shopariffic community are at once humane\, heartfelt\, 
 revealing &ndash\; and very funny.\nTinsel is a compelling tale of our hal
 f-trillion-dollar holiday\, measuring what we we've become against the anc
 ient rituals of what we've always been.\nHank Stuever is an award-winning 
 pop culture writer for The Washington Post's Style section. He is the auth
 or of Off Ramp\, an essay collection\, and has appeared on Today\, The Vie
 w\, the CBS Early Show and National Public Radio.\n\nStart time: 7:00pm
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