Awkward Family Photos

Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—iEsquire/i), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen angst, sibling rivalry, and family vacations from hell. Cringe at the forced poses, bad hair, and matching outfits--all prompting us to look at our own families and celebrate the fact that we're not alone. Nothing says awkward better than an uncomfortable family photograph!

span class="h1"strongJennifer Weiner Reviews emAwkward Family Photos/em/strong/span pbJennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels emGood In Bed/em (2001), emIn Her Shoes/em (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; emLittle Earthquakes/em (2004), emGoodnight Nobody/em (2005), the short story collection emThe Guy Not Taken/em (2006), emCertain Girls/em (2008), the sequel to iGood in Bed/i, and her most recent, emBest Friends Forever/em (2009). Her next book, emFly Away Home/em, will be published by Atria Books on July 13, 2010. There are more than 11 million copies of her books in print in 36 countries. She can be found on Facebook, on Twitter, and, in real life, in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. Read her review of iAwkward Family Photos/i:/b/p pimg align="right" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/rando-ems/weiner-100.jpg"/ /p pSamuel Butler once said "Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."/p pIf that’s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos. iAwkward Family Photos/i reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaids’ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isn’t just a book, it’s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77./p br/hr noshade="noshade" size="1" class="bucketDivider"/