It's a town where the Christmas spirit lives all year around. It's also where Jerry Scott Heidler had been raised. And where--in December 1997--he brutally slaughters his former foster family in an act that devastates the town of Santa Claus, Georgia, forever. Includes photos. Original.

This Sherwood Anderson-award winning farcical novel follows two teenage boys living on a farm in rural Indiana. Their father--a diminutive man and the laughingstock of their small town--purchases two boars in an attempt to impress his neighbors and demonstrate, by proxy, his masculinity. The boars, however, turn out to be resolutely gay and deeply committed to each other, setting off a ridiculous chain of events that brings the spotlight and accompanying media circus to Malloy. In the midst of all of the madness is the boys' ongoing, and at once heartbreaking and hilarious, quest to find...