Meet The Karens: They're Angry And They Want Attention (Signed Copy)

Meet The Karens: They're Angry And They Want Attention... A Field Guide To A Species That Will Find This And Complain

Karen can't seem to mind her own business and also believes there is a war on Christmas that started specifically because of things she said and her contributions were not acknowledged. The Karens in this book have opinions about your choices, your service level, your parking, your children's behavior, and the general direction of a society that has not done nearly enough to align with what Karen needs it to be. They want attention. They are getting it. This book is that attention, illustrated in cartoon form, with the grim cheerfulness of a field guide to a species that will absolutely find this and consider the cover.

This adult parody book is satire of a recognizable cultural type that exists in sufficient quantity to make almost everyone in the audience think of a specific person immediately upon hearing the name. That person is the target. The book is the observation. The observation is accurate enough to generate recognition and funny enough to keep the recognition from being only sad. The Karens are real. The book sees them. They have not yet decided how they feel about being seen.

This Book IS For:

• Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a customer complaint that lasted longer than the transaction that triggered it
• Service industry workers who have seen more Karens in a single shift than this book contains in total
• Fans of satire that documents a real type with enough accuracy to feel like journalism
• Gift-givers who want to hand someone something that makes them immediately think of three people they know

This Book Is NOT For:

• People named Karen who have been told this satire doesn't apply to them and believe that
• Anyone who has filed more than two formal complaints in the past calendar year about things that were not legally actionable
• Readers who believe this type of satire "punches down" at people who are "just advocating for themselves"
• Karens, though statistically several will buy this and miss the point in a way that confirms the entire premise

Appropriate For:

• Gifts for retail and service industry workers who deserve recognition of what they are dealing with
• White elephant exchanges where someone in the group has shared a Karen story in the past year
• Any work setting where the concept has come up in a meeting in a way everyone immediately understood
• Gifts for the friend who has been on the receiving end of a Karen and needs to laugh about it in illustrated form

Why Buy This

The Karen phenomenon costs the economy billions of dollars annually in wasted service time, escalated management calls, and the specific toll of maintaining professionalism while being talked to in a way that would be unacceptable in any other social context. This book processes that cost through satire for less money than one manager escalation takes to resolve. It is, in that sense, an extremely efficient use of resources... which is the one thing Karen and this book have in common.

One reviewer called a book in this series "degenerate and morally corrupt," which is the most Karen review ever written about a book called Meet The Karens, and which should function as a five-star endorsement for everyone else. The Karens are angry. The Karens want attention. This book provides it. The book is also available at a price that Karen will consider surprisingly reasonable, which means she will buy it for a niece, miss the entire point, and somehow get a refund anyway.