• Age: 18
• Grade: 12

In this second volume of the Better Next Year collection of true stories, discover more dashed holiday hopes, Christmas catastrophes, and slender, heartbreaking shards of joy.

Upon A Midnight Clear brings together emerging authors from across the country who share their experiences of Christmases gone wrong. These tales—sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always poignant—celebrate the spirit of the season and will warm your heart on even the coldest night.

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JJ Lee is the author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit (2011), a finalist for the Governor General’s, Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust and Charles Taylor prizes for non-fiction. His essays have appeared in publications including Elle, Montecristo, The Georgia Straight, Canadian Architect and more. He currently mentors a non-fiction workshop at Simon Fraser University’s The Writer’s Studio and previously edited Better Next Year: An anthology of Christmas Epiphanies (2023). He lives in New Westminster, BC.