We're Not Camping: Mom And Dad Lied We're Homeless
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2020
Series: Book 45 of 134 - Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
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- Title
- We're Not Camping: Mom And Dad Lied We're Homeless
- Author
- Toons, Vector
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798613572175
- Series
- Book 45 of 134: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
We're Not Camping: Mom And Dad Lied, We're Homeless... A Road Trip With An Undisclosed Destination
The kids thought they were going camping. Mom and dad said "camping trip" and the kids believed "camping trip" because kids believe what they're told and parents say the thing that produces the least immediate distress on the road to the situation that requires the most eventual explanation. The tents are not camping tents. The location is not a campground. The experience is camping-adjacent in the sense that it involves sleeping outdoors, which is the one element the classification shares with the thing the kids were told they were doing. This book explains the rest of it with the gentle honesty of a guide that has decided the kids can handle the fuller picture now.
This adult parody book uses the children's guide format to address a situation that a significant and growing number of families have navigated with varying degrees of advance notice. The camping trip framing is the protective layer the parents applied. The illustrated guide is the honest layer applied afterward. Both layers are present in this book, and the gap between them is funny in the specific way that dark truths delivered via cartoon art are funny: because the honesty is better than the fiction, and the fiction was kind, and both of those things are true at once.
This Book IS For:
- Adults who have experienced a situation described to them as one thing that was actually another thing and have the humor of distance now
- Fans of dark comedy that addresses real economic experiences with honesty rather than pretending the experiences aren't real
- Anyone who has worked in housing services, social work, or any field where this specific situation is not unusual
- Gift-givers who want to acknowledge a difficult shared experience in a form that the recipient can laugh at rather than cry at
This Book Is NOT For:
- People currently in the situation this book describes, for whom the dark humor has not yet developed the distance it needs
- Readers who feel housing instability should not be a vehicle for illustrated humor regardless of the target audience
- Anyone who has used the camping trip explanation with their own children and is not ready to see it documented
- Policy advocates who feel this subject requires structural solutions rather than satirical acknowledgment
Appropriate For:
- Gag gifts for adults who grew up navigating housing instability and have arrived at the humor stage through their own timeline
- White elephant exchanges among people who are far enough from the experience to find it funny and close enough to find it true
- Gifts for social workers who have heard many versions of the camping trip explanation and could use a compressed illustrated version
- Anyone who finds the gap between the thing children are told and the thing that is actually happening to be a rich comedic vein
Why Buy This
The lie is kind. The lie is temporary. The lie is the thing you say when the truth is too large for the car ride. Parents tell it. Children believe it. The timeline between the lie and the truth is the whole of childhood in miniature, and this book covers that timeline with the dark humor that only distance from a real situation can produce. The camping trip was not a camping trip. The kids knew something. The kids are old enough now.
Buy it for someone who went on a camping trip like this one. Buy it for someone whose work involves people who've told this story. Buy it for anyone who finds the humor of the protective lie worth documenting and laughing at. We're not camping. Mom and dad lied. The book says so with cartoon art. That's the most honest camping trip content available at this price.
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