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Grandma Thelma & Kin On Family: Questionable Wisdom, Family Stories, & Useful Nonsense
Paperback
Series: Grandma Thelma & Kin
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
You don't get to choose your family. Which, according to Grandma Thelma, explains quite a bit.
Families come with people you love, people who aggravate you, people who remember things about you that should have expired twenty years ago, and at least one person who knows something everybody else has agreed not to ask about. They assign you jobs you never applied for, pass information faster than modern technology, argue over events nobody remembers the same way, and somehow keep making room when another person becomes one of theirs.
In Grandma Thelma & Kin: On Family, Thelma and her collection of opinionated relatives take on the strange machinery of belonging: family roles, old reputations, unwanted advice, complicated favors, questionable family history, generational differences, and the people who can drive you absolutely crazy while remaining the first ones you call when life goes sideways.
Warm, sharp, absurd, and occasionally more truthful than anybody intended, On Family is for readers who know that the best families aren't perfect. They're messy, loyal, exasperating, funny-and usually carrying a story nobody can tell without being interrupted.
Pull up a chair and meet the kin. Just don't expect everybody to agree on what happened.
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