Family - The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag! by Erma Bombeck (1987)

Family -- The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag!
by Erma Bombeck
Publisher:  McGraw-Hill Book Company
Copyright:  1987
Book Club Edition

The wisest of the wits and the wittiest of the wise looks at that great American tradition -- the Family.  Erma Bombeck finds a mother lode of laughter, compassion, pathos, poignancy, and nostalgia in the small and large triumphs of family life in the '80s.

In Family:  The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag!, a grown family comes home to spend the weekend . . . a group who share the same genes, chromosomes. and last name, but have never eaten the same breakfast cereal, watched the same TV shows, liked the same people, or spoken the same language.  They discuss whatever happened to the home-cooked "McMeal," what kind of children would bring parents into this crazy mixed-up world, and the horrors of what happens when parents come face to face with Technology.

It's a blending of generations and relationships, the story of a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound them all together.

Here is the Family grown.  Erma visiting her son's apartment, and a roach hanging up her coat.  Erma, once internationally renowned as den mother of three, now matured to the age of "You look wonderful."  Erma, contemplating her long marriage -- "We have to stay together.  We need each other to finish a sentence."  With love, perception, and irreverence, Erma presents an American family -- challenged in a way no one would ever have thought possible to survive.

"They've weathered combinations of step, foster, single, adoptive, surrogate, frozen embryo, and sperm bank.  They've multiplied, divided, extended, and banded into communes.  They've been assaulted by technology, battered by sexual revolutions, and confused by role reversals.  But they're still here -- playing to a full house."

Family:  The Ties That Bind . . . and Gag! is not the definitive work on the family.  It only covers everything you can laugh at.

Condition:  Used.  Hardcover.  Dust cover is lightly discolored and shows light crease, small tears and rubbed edges.  Previous owner's "Library Of" stamp is on the front endpaper.  Pages may be tanning from age.

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