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A hysterically funny and slyly insightful new collection of essays from New York Times best-selling creator Annabelle Gurwitch, about her own family of scam performers and hucksters as well as the sisterhoods, temporary tribes, and show-biz klatches who have become surrogates along the way. When Annabelle Gurwitch was a kid, ornamented by a ensemble of epically dysfunctional family, she secretly prayed that it was all an awful mistake. Maybe she was a long-lost little girl of Joni Mitchell or a reincarnation of the Russian princess Anastasia. A family of bootleggers, gamblers, and philanderers, the Gurwitches will always be a bit vague on the typical ideal of any adoring and supportive family. Their description includes people you can count on to borrow funds from, keep a grudge against, or blackmail. One day, alas, Gurwitch woke up to understand that she'd made similar, if not the same, mistakes as everyone else before her - just in a fresh zip code. Wherever she proceeded to go, there these were. With her wry wit and hard-learned wisdom, Gurwitch explores the inescapable yet satisfying realities of life with her family and her Southern Jewish origins as well as her flirtation with surrogate individuals including movie theater folk, pet people, the secular humanist brotherhood, a tribe of vegan cosplaying plushies, the "Arbonne sisterhood", and the females who brunch at Tel Aviv Landscapes Retirement living Home in Miami, Florida. She's learned that for better or for worse (you can reckon which), it's worth celebrating the traditions, rituals, and recipes that include a shared mythology and legacy, even if her own inheritance quantities to a tiny plot of land split between five family by using an ill-fated sliver of fine sand known as Massacre Island. Attractively written, and filled with surreal yet poignant family moments and public commentary, Gurwitch provides a provocative treatise on the value and insanity of family. Wherever YOU DECIDE TO GO, There They Are is a must-listen for anyone who's even occasionally been frustrated by the people they reveal carbohydrate-laden meals with every year.
