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Its All Relative: A Memoir of Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine
by Wade Rouse
How come the only thing my family tree ever grows is nuts?
With his trademark eye for detail and self-deprecating humor, critically acclaimed memoirist Wade Rouse asks and attempts to answer that question in blisteringly funny detail in his new memoir, Its All Relative: A Memoir of Two Families, Three Dogs, 34 Holidays and 50 Boxes of Wine, which will publish February 2011 from Harmony Books/Random House.
Celebrating his imperfect family—a chatty yet loving mother, an eccentric engineer of a father, a marvelously Martha Stewart-esque partner, a garage-sale loving set of in-laws, and an oddball collection of relatives—through the yearly celebrations that bring out the very best in our nearest and dearest, Rouse paints a funny, sad, poignant, and outlandish portrait of an all too typical family that will have you appreciating or bemoaning your own.
Wade Rouse is the author of three, critically-acclaimed memoirs, including Americas Boy (Dutton/2006), Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler (Harmony/2007), and the bestselling At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life (Harmony/2009).
Wade Rouse is a laugh-out-loud-funny (NBCs Today Show), wise, witty, wicked (USA Today) writer whose humor successfully imports a steady current of panic, a la Erma Bombeck (The Onion). Rouse is a hilarious David Sedaris meets Dave Barry hybrid (Library Journal) who beautifully combines humor and pathos (Out Magazine), and has quickly established himself as an original writer and impressive new voice (The Washington Post) whose combination of honest emotion and evocative prose is destined to be a hit! (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Rouse is a master raconteur.-Jen Lancaster, bestselling author of Such a Pretty Fat and Pretty in Plaid

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[JPHowy1969]

Finished your book here in Phuket, Thailand (It's All Relative) and loved it Wade!!! Can't wait to meet you and Gary whilst popping over to visit your neighbors we met in Dresden, Germany.

[thirdstoned]

this was hilarious. (and pretty much like the family shenanigans I've experienced. You must be right - it IS universal!)

[benknown2]

Can't wait to read the book!