There is always something to celebrate in life. And something interesting often happens during the celebrations! Sometimes someone wanders off, sometimes under the influence of alcohol or unusual circumstances, hidden problems and hidden secrets come to the surface... And only the celebrants of our stories know that a cat collar, a striptease or a baby crocodile can be a gift.
Twelve renowned authors have set their stories in the middle of celebrations on a wide variety of occasions - from wedding, birthday and Christmas parties to anniversaries, class reunions and film premieres to folk festivals and feasts at the end of the cherry harvest or vintage - and show that innocent fun and social fun can often turn out to be the small and funny, the fundamental and revolutionary (and sometimes irreversible) life events.