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The Family Group Chat That Ruined Thanksgiving: A Definitive Transcript
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
It started with a headcount. It should have ended there.
Six weeks before Thanksgiving, Mom starts a family group chat to organize dinner. Simple enough.
Then Aunt Debra brings up the ham nobody thanked her for in 2019. Uncle Ray announces a new girlfriend. Then three previously unmentioned children. Someone creates a secret chat called Actual Family (No Ray). A folding table disappears. An Airbnb is booked without permission. Dietary restrictions multiply. The weather becomes a threat. And somehow nobody can agree on how many people are actually coming.
Told almost entirely through increasingly unhinged text messages, The Family Group Chat That Ruined Thanksgiving is a fast, funny family comedy about old grudges, new relatives, passive-aggressive pie opinions, and the people who drive you completely insane because they're yours.
Beneath the chaos is something unexpectedly warm: a family slowly figuring out that showing up matters more than getting Thanksgiving right.
For anyone who's ever survived a holiday group chat and thought, this could have been an email.
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