Every year, we have to deal with the awkward relatives at Christmas: the know-it-all uncle, the overly excited aunt, the drunken father-in-law, the esoteric sister-in-law, and the phone-obsessed nieces and nephews. The grandparents demand poems, the parents argue, and the siblings don’t speak a word to each other. The only consolation: it’s not any better at other people's homes. On the contrary.