Family Home Screaming

by Robert Kirby

If families are forever, will Mom always have gray hair? What happens when the dog makes more sense than your kids? Planned Parenthood. The perfect oxymoron? Is selling your teenager for 3 cents a pound really good family value? Fatherhood. Shouldn't I have a license to do this? If questions like these plague you and yours - or worse, if they make sense - you need this book. Pat and Kirby delve deeply into the secrets of effective parenting (there are three, and no one knows what they are), and explore what makes relatively nice men and women want to hurt themselves by having kids. The fourth in their wild conspiracy series that began with Sunday of the Living Dead, Salt Lake Tribune columnist Robert Kirby and cartoonist Pat Bagley join farces again, this time over something none of us can escape - family.

Genres: Humor, Lds, Religion

Paperback

First published September 1, 1999

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Reviews

[Liaken]

Robert Kirby, while giving good insight, satire, and humor, still tries to go for mild shock value that is often in poor taste (ex. if he makes one more generalization about how men just want to look at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue, I think I'll have to punch him). However, that said, sometimes he reveals the underside of a very constricted culture so precisely that it's almost inspiring.

Pat Bagley's comic art of Mormon culture is sometimes so painfully accurate that I can't stop laughing. At other times it falls flat (whose doesn't?). Bagley and Kirby make a great team.

[Chris]

Very funny at times.

[Bonnie]

3.5 stars, I laughed and laughed. It may have been the late hour. But it was a joy. I was only going to read a little bit, but I just couldn't quit!!

[Nathalie]

Robert Kirby made me laugh out loud time and time again. 'Nuff said...

[Emilou]

Another fun read. Very funny.