Meet the Icicles: unpredictable, exciting, comedic, and festive.<br><br>When Jonah Icicle decides to spend Christmas with his family and introduces his new boyfriend Sandy, everyone reacts differently. His mother Pam is combative, always judgmental to a fault, obnoxious, and loud. Jonah’s sister Willa adores the new man in her brother’s life and feels he will be a key player in their close unit. Willa’s husband Bobo suffers from hypersexuality and unfortunately can’t keep his hands off Sandy. And Jake, Jonah’s brother and Pam’s favorite son, is more interested in his marijuana than his relatives.<br><br>As the snow flies and the electricity goes out, the Icicles fight, hug, and laugh. Can they welcome the holiday spirit -- and Sandy -- into their lives?

The Icicles

Pam brings up the rear, swinging her purse at her left side, stepping carefully over and around one icy spot after the next, concerned of plummeting to its asphalt, repeatedly saying, “I don’t want to break a hip.” 


Once inside the restaurant, the Icicle family is a provided with a round table. Two seats are left empty, opposite Jonah and Sandy. The pair of seats sit between Pam on their left side and Jake on their right side.


As Jonah studies the ruby-red-trimmed-in-gold material around him—draperies, napkins, chairs, carpet—and a petite Chinese-American waitress with pretty, black eyes who masterfully places menus in front of his family, he realizes that one of the empty seats belongs to his father, Bill, who has failed them all this evening, and most of their holidays as a family, hiding yet again inside his small, personal, and whatever-happens world.


Chapter 12