Sign-In
Cart
When Parents Go To Jail
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 14 2021
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
It was a surprise. Not necessarily in the way that surprise usually means, but in the timeline sense: you didn't know it was happening and then it was happening and now a parent is not at the dinner table and the explanation that has been provided varies by who in the family is providing it. This book addresses what happens when a parent goes to jail: the practical household implications, the explanations available at various age levels, and the specific range of they're away for a while framings that families deploy in the early stage before everyone agrees on what the accurate version is.
This adult parody book handles a difficult family situation in the illustrated children's book format that has proven, across this series, to be the most honest available vehicle for situations that adult formats find difficult to address with both accuracy and humor. When parents go to jail, the household continues. The household has practical needs. The book addresses those needs with cartoon art and the resigned pragmatism of someone who has done the research on what happens next and produced a guide.
This Book IS For:- Adults who grew up in households where a parent's absence required explanation and find the dark humor of distance now available
- Fans of comedy that uses real, difficult experiences as material and finds the funny without losing the truth
- Social workers, family services professionals, and teachers who encounter this situation and need something for their perspective shelf
- Gift-givers who know the specific recipient for whom this book will be the most recognizable and cathartic gift available
- People currently in the early weeks of this situation in their own family for whom the humor requires more time to develop
- Readers who believe incarceration should not be addressed through illustrated parody regardless of the intent
- Anyone whose parent is currently incarcerated and who received this book without consenting to the specific genre
- Family members who prefer the away for a while framing and need it to remain unchallenged for the foreseeable future
- Gag gifts for adults who have processed this experience long enough to find the illustrated version cathartic rather than painful
- White elephant exchanges among people close enough to each other that this recognition produces laugh rather than concern
- Gifts for anyone working in family services, youth counseling, or any field where this is a known situation
- Anyone who has had to explain where a parent was using the softest available framing and who is old enough now to find the gap funny
The criminal justice system processes millions of parents annually. The children of those parents receive explanations of varying accuracy about where mom or dad has gone. This book provides the direct version that the varying explanations were approximating. It is more accurate than away for a while. It is more accurate than a lot of the other framings that get deployed in this situation. Accuracy delivered via cartoon art at a price that doesn't require a payment plan is a service.
Buy it for someone who grew up with this experience and has the distance to find it funny. Buy it for a professional who encounters the situation regularly and needs something to break the tension in their own processing. Buy it because the household continued when the parent left and the household continuing was its own kind of story that the book tells. When parents go to jail, someone else figures it out. The book documents the figuring out. The figuring out is the whole thing.
Also in
Humor
I Can't Believe I Did That: The Game That Gives You Points for Sharing Awkward, Awesome, and Unforgettable Memories: Card Games
Nadelberg, David
Katcher, Neil
Other
The Science Magpie: Fascinating Facts, Stories, Poems, Diagrams and Jokes Plucked from Science
Flynn, Simon
Paperback
Fixing Flamingos: And Other Solutions to the World's Least Pressing Problems
Brown, Lucienne
Rea, Brian
Paperback
How to Be a Cat: (Cat Books for Kids, Cat Gifts for Kids, Cat Picture Book)
Swerling, Lisa
Lazar, Ralph
Hardcover
Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers: A Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library
New York Public Library
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
Bake It Off: An Unofficial Taylor Swift-Inspired Cookbook for Every Era, from Breakfast to Midnights
Smith, Lindsey
Hardcover
Big Fan: Two Friends, 82,490 Miles, and the Wild, Wonderful Sports We Love
Schur, Michael
Posnanski, Joe
Hardcover
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to '90s Sitcoms
Bennett, Geoff
Hardcover
We Are the World (Cup): A Personal History of the World's Greatest Sporting Event
Bennett, Roger
Hardcover
How to Grow Up Without Becoming a Grown-Up: Big Lessons from Little Kids
Shapiro-Barnum, Julian
Hardcover
Pardon My Book: Ten Years of the Best (and Worst) in Sports from Pardon My Take
Commenter, Pft
Big Cat
Hardcover
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Five Novels in One Outrageous Volume
Adams, Douglas
Paperback
There Are Moms Way Worse Than You: Irrefutable Proof That You Are Indeed a Fantastic Parent
Boozan, Glenn
Hardcover
The New Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Expert Advice for Extreme Situations
Piven, Joshua
Borgenicht, David
Hardcover
How to Talk to Your Cat about Gun Safety: And Abstinence, Drugs, Satanism, and Other Dangers That Threaten Their Nine Lives
Auburn, Zachary
Paperback
Nobody Wants Your Sh*t: The Art of Decluttering Before You Die (New York Times Bestseller)
Condo, Messie
Hardcover