A Visit From St Nicholas To A Liberated Household

Description for A VISIT FROM ST NICHOLAS TO A LIBERATED HOUSEHOLD by Judith Viorst:

Here Judith Viorst, author of the bestselling How Did I Get To Be 40...And Other Atrocities, takes a new look at Clement Moore's classic poem about the night before Christmas.  The setting is the liberated household of Rich and Joyce, who stipulated in their marriage contract that "he cleans on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and alternate Sundays" while she mows the lawn because "they both agree that it wouldn't be good for the children to see their parents in stereotypical roles. "The stockings were hung, the children asleep while visions of sugarplums danced in their heads, when, out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, Joyce sprang from her bed, "having earned a black belt in karate...dispelling the myth that a family's physical safety always has to be in the charge of the man," to see what was the matter.  St Nick arrives (Joyce points out that there appears to be an equitable distribution of male and female reindeer, with six nonsexist names) and comes down the chimney to proceed with his night's work.  Written with charm and humor, this is a book for every household---liberated or not.