Holidays on Ice and share their ambitions of

and share their ambitions of becoming "lion women

But there's a backstory here

the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit

from slave songs to Confederate hymns to Civil War ballads

Holidays on Ice and share their ambitions ofDavid 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