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Sex Offenders: Trying To Be Good In Your Neighbourhood
Paperback
Series: Rejected Children's Books (Funny Books for Adults)
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 27 2021
Pages: 30
Weight: 0.21
Height: 0.08 Width: 8.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Becky was caught looking over a wall. Steve was out in public touching his ball... the one he'd brought to the park, for recreation, which was documented in the report inaccurately. These are the cases in your neighborhood. The sex offenders in this book are trying. Trying to integrate. Trying to make good decisions. Trying to be the kind of neighbor who gets a wave rather than a notice. The results are mixed. The intentions are, according to the book, present. The execution has room for development. The neighborhood remains cautiously aware.
This adult parody book uses double entendre and deliberately ambiguous phrasing to walk a very specific tonal line: acknowledging what its characters have done while finding the absurdist humor in the rehabilitation narrative. Every sentence technically describes innocent activities that have been reported ambiguously. The looking over a wall was looking over a wall. The ball in the park was a ball in the park. The neighborhood has processed these situations and arrived at conclusions the book does not share but documents faithfully.
This Book IS For:- Fans of dark comedy that operates through maximum plausible deniability while clearly knowing what it's doing
- Adults who appreciate humor that lives in the gap between the literal statement and its unavoidable interpretation
- Anyone who has ever read a news item and caught the gap between what was alleged and what was proven
- Gift-givers who want to hand someone something with a title that requires processing before the content becomes clear
- People who find the subject matter too close to real harm to be a vehicle for double entendre comedy
- Readers who believe this category of offense should not be satirized regardless of the execution or intent
- Anyone in law enforcement who has specific, professional opinions about this topic that preclude finding it funny
- Neighborhood watch coordinators who are meeting about something adjacent to this next Tuesday
- White elephant exchanges where the title does the work and the content reveals a completely defensible story
- Gag gifts for the friend who appreciates comedy that maintains plausible deniability across the entire runtime
- Anyone who enjoys the specific comedy of double meaning done with full commitment and zero acknowledgment
- Occasions where you want a book that starts a conversation about what trying to be good actually looks like
The rehabilitation narrative is one of the most complex in the human experience. This book addresses it with cartoon art and sentences that are technically about one thing while being received as something else, and the gap between those two things is where the humor lives. Becky looked over a wall. Steve had a ball at the park. The neighborhood has opinions. The book records the opinions, the activities, and the cautious ongoing attempts at community integration.
At the price of a neighborhood watch flyer that nobody reads past the first line, you get a book that has a first line, a second line, and sixteen more pages of context that reframes the situation repeatedly. The sex offenders are trying. The trying is illustrated. Whether the trying is working is a question the book raises and the neighborhood continues to assess. Buy it. Add it to your understanding of the rehabilitation conversation. Steve wants to be good. Becky is working on it. The ball was recreational.
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