Why Daddy Hits Mommy: Kid's Guide To Understanding Alcoholism
Language: English
Published by Independently published, 2020
Series: Book 37 of 134 - Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
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- Title
- Why Daddy Hits Mommy: Kid's Guide To Understanding Alcoholism
- Author
- Toons, Vector
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Publication year
- 2020
- Condition
- As New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1658902556
- ISBN 13
- 9781658902557
- Series
- Book 37 of 134: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books For Adults)
Why Daddy Hits Mommy: Kids Guide To Understanding Alcoholism... When The Problem Has A Name And The Name Has A Schedule
It comes down to Dad drinking too much and too often. The correlation between the drinking schedule and the hitting schedule has been noted by the household and is documented in this book. The alcoholism has a name. The name has been placed on the cover because the children who grew up in households where this was a dynamic deserve a book that says directly what was happening instead of the versions they were given at the time. Daddy drinks. The drinking and the behavior are connected. The connection is illustrated. The connection has always been there for those inside the house to see.
This adult parody book is dark humor about domestic violence and alcoholism, presented in the illustrated children's book format that makes the subject approachable rather than avoidable. The humor is in the honesty... the direct naming of what was happening in language that is clearer than what was offered in the house at the time. It is funny in the way that very dark things become funny at distance. The distance is what makes the book possible. The humor is what makes the distance bearable.
This Book IS For:
- Adults who grew up in households where this pattern was present and who have processed it far enough to find the illustrated honesty useful
- Fans of dark comedy that doesn't flinch at real subject matter when the distance and the framing are handled carefully
- Anyone who received explanations as a child that required significant adult decoding to understand what was actually happening
- Gift-givers who know a specific person for whom this book will land as recognition rather than shock
This Book Is NOT For:
- People currently inside the situation this book describes, for whom the humor is not yet available and should not be forced
- Readers who feel domestic violence should not appear in any humor context regardless of the framing or audience
- Anyone for whom this subject matter activates something that the distance required for comedy has not yet resolved
- Children... this book is adult parody and the subject matter requires adult perspective to process as intended
Appropriate For:
- Gag gifts for adults who have been in therapy long enough to find the illustrated version less heavy than the original
- Support group contexts where dark humor about alcoholism and its impacts is part of the shared language
- White elephant exchanges among close friends where the humor of recognition has been established as a shared mode
- Gifts for anyone who can laugh at the thing they survived and finds that laughter part of their survival
Why Buy This
Recovery humor exists because it has to. The people who went through something real and came out the other side with enough distance to find it funny have always found things that weren't made for them and made do. This book was made for them. It's the illustrated version of the thing that happened. It names it. It puts it in cartoon art. The cartoon art is charming in the way that the situation it depicts was not. The gap between the charming and the depicted is the whole thing.
Buy it for someone who has done the work of processing this in their own time and has arrived at the dark humor stage without being pushed. Buy it for someone who would know exactly who to give it to even if they don't give it to themselves. The alcoholism has a name. The schedule was real. The book is the honest version of what the household contained. The illustrated cartoon art makes it something you can laugh at while knowing it was real. That combination is rare and worth the price of the book.
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