My Racist Gran: Says We Still Can't Trust The Japs (Signed Copy)

My Racist Gran: Says We Still Can't Trust The Japs... Holiday Visits With Maximum Institutional Memory

The holidays are when we go to grandma's house right through the snow. We love grandma. Grandma's opinions were formed during a specific historical period and have not been updated since, which means holiday visits contain a range of assessments about various groups that were considered normal at their formation and are now considered considerably otherwise. Gran is not mean. Gran is thorough. Gran has opinions that are historically sourced and that she shares freely with the confidence of someone who has never been in a room where the opinions were challenged by the people they concerned.

This illustrated adult parody book is dark humor about the specific and universal experience of the family elder whose worldview contains information that the rest of the family spends holiday visits diplomatically navigating. Gran loves you. Gran's love contains a side of historical assessments that you did not order and cannot send back. The book documents the holiday experience without flinching at Gran's views or endorsing them, which is exactly the approach that family reunions take and rarely make explicit.

This Book IS For:

• Adults who have sat across a holiday table from a gran-equivalent and done the look-at-the-tablecloth thing
• Fans of dark humor that is honest about family dynamics including the specific ones that nobody in the family addresses directly
• Anyone who has had to quietly apologize to a guest for something said by a family member with seniority
• Gift-givers who want to give something that every family recognizes from their own version of the holiday experience

This Book Is NOT For:

• People who believe the gran type's views should be documented without any comedic framing regardless of the satirical intent
• Readers who need all elderly characters to be portrayed as wise and their observations treated with deference
• Anyone who is the gran in their family and doesn't find the situation funny yet
• Family reunions where this book would not function as satire but as documentation of someone present

Appropriate For:

• Holiday gifts for the family member who has been navigating gran's opinions the longest and deserves acknowledgment
• White elephant exchanges among adults who have all done the holiday table look-at-your-plate move
• Gag gifts for the friend who has described their family's holiday visit as "a lot" in a very specific way
• Anyone who finds the dark humor of recognizable family dysfunction more useful than pretending it doesn't exist

Why Buy This

Gran is not going to change. Gran's opinions were locked in sometime before anyone at the holiday table was old enough to vote, and they have remained consistent since. The family has developed strategies. The strategies involve looking at tablecloths and changing the subject and apologizing to guests during coat retrieval. This book acknowledges those strategies, the situation that produced them, and finds the dark humor in the recognition that almost every family has some version of this dynamic and almost none of them discuss it directly.

Buy it for someone who nods when you say "gran energy" without needing a definition. Buy it for someone who is far enough from the holidays to find the specific experience funny now. Buy it as a family artifact that says: we have been navigating this for years and we might as well laugh. Gran loves you. Gran's views are complicated. The holiday visits continue regardless. The book documents what usually gets edited out of the family newsletter.