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Mom's Crystals: Won't Save Your Pop Pop
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 2 2023
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Pop Pop is not well. Mom is very well supplied with healing crystals. These two facts are in tension with each other in a way that the medical literature does not support resolving in the crystals' favor, but mom has not checked the medical literature because she has been at the crystal shop. This book documents mom's commitment to vibrational healing, the crystals involved, the money allocated to those crystals, and the ongoing medical situation with Pop Pop that the crystals are, statistically, not meaningfully addressing. Mom is trying. The crystals are doing their best. Pop Pop is still not great.
This illustrated adult parody book is funny because it captures something real: the collision between earnest alternative wellness belief and the actual physical world that does not consult those beliefs before proceeding. Mom loves Pop Pop. Mom also loves crystals. The crystals love Mom's credit card. Pop Pop has not been consulted about the crystals' role in his care plan. The book is honest about all of this in a way that the healing crystal industry prefers not to be.
This Book IS For:- Anyone who has a family member whose medical decisions have been guided by a crystal or a chakra assessment or a vibe
- Adults navigating the specific situation of loving someone whose wellness philosophy has drifted from evidence-based medicine
- Fans of dark comedy that finds the humor in the gap between good intentions and operational reality
- Gift-givers who know exactly which family member in the recipient's life is the crystal person and this is about that
- People who believe in crystal healing deeply enough that this premise reads as mockery of their reality rather than their practice
- Anyone currently purchasing crystals as a meaningful component of a medical plan and finding the title threatening
- Readers who need all wellness approaches to be treated with equal validity regardless of the evidence base
- Pop Pop, who has enough on his plate and does not need this specific book on top of everything else
- Gifts for anyone navigating the specific family dynamic where one person has crystal energy and another person has a prognosis
- White elephant exchanges at any gathering where at least one person has given crystal-adjacent gifts before
- Mother's Day, specifically, for the kind of mother who has a crystal collection and a family that loves her despite and because of it
- Anyone who has spent money on alternative wellness and would appreciate laughing about it from the outside angle
The healing crystal market is worth over two billion dollars annually. That is a lot of crystals that are not saving Pop Pops. This book costs a fraction of one crystal and documents the situation with more accuracy than any crystal consultation has ever managed. For the cost of one small rose quartz that promotes healing and positive energy, you can have an illustrated cartoon book that also promotes healing, specifically the emotional healing of laughing at something real and difficult.
Mom means well. Mom's crystals are very nice. Pop Pop needs a different kind of help than the crystals provide. These three things can all be true simultaneously, and this book holds all three with the kind of dark humor that only makes sense if you've been in a situation where love and wishful thinking are the most present available resources. Buy it. Pop Pop would probably find it funnier than the crystals have been.
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