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    Hank Stuever

    Hank Stuever

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    November 21, 2009

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    Stuever turns his unerring eye for the idiosyncrasies of modern life to Frisco, Texas, to tell the story of a half-trillion dollar industry: Christmas. He follows three of Frisco's true holiday believers as they navigate through the Nativity and all its attendant crises. Tammie Parnell is the proprietor of "Two Elves with a Twist," a company that decorates other people's big houses for Christmas. Jeff and Bridgette Trykoski own that house every town has: the one with the visible-from-space, most awe-inspiring Christmas lights. And single mother Caroll Cavazos just hopes that the life-affirming moments of Christmas might overcome the struggles of the rest of the year. Stuever's portraits of this happy, megachurchy, shopariffic community are at once humane, heartfelt, revealing – and very funny.


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