Thankful for My Family: A Thanksgiving Comedy
Series: Family Comedy Trilogy, Book 1
Written and Narrated By: Shelton Johnson
Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
A hilarious, sometimes not so PC, rumble through a holiday!
“Never trust a Black man named Stuart,” says Shane, Stuart’s big brother. But thank God for Stuart, and his family, or I don’t think I’d have an audiobook I laughed at so much while I was listening. Okay, so he’s a little bit cheap. And okay, there’s the whole mop-in-the-bucket thing. And okay, he’s dating an older woman who may be “the one”, but he’s got some more oats to sow.
He’s a lot of things. But his family is oh so much more! It starts with the trip from Maryland to a rented beach house in South Carolina where Tiffany, maybe… “the one”… is to meet the entire family, sibling, parents, cousins, in-laws, grandma, children, you name it, that family’s THERE. And things aren’t looking too good for Tiffany in that she just happens to look like an aunt of hers… one who might look like an old flame of Stuart’s Uncle Al. But things aren’t all bad for Tiffany because she seems to have moved a ten-year old to become a player. Maybe Stuart’s up for sowing a few more wild oats, but Little Al would marry Tiffany as soon as he comes of age.
Confusing? A lot of characters?
Well, get ready for all those characters and more, chaos and more chaos, in Thankful for My Family. There are discussions of situations that are questionably gay and ones that are definitely gay (but never say Sissy—that’s not PC!). There’s bad rap to open the book, followed by even worse rap by a grown man who should know better. There are babies’ daddies who say they did time when they grew up in Brooklyn (but they’re really country boys who just like to fish… but don’t call them on it). There are things to be thankful for while saying grace, and sometimes that’s for Happy Hour at the Sweaty Nipple. And most hilariously, there’s Uncle Boogie. If that man doesn’t make you laugh, I don’t know who can.
Delightfully narrated by Shelton Johnson himself, who knows when he wants to interject humor, anxiety, mortification, and also most certainly inspired by true events, Thankful for My Family is a very short listen, barely over 2 hours. Probably what it’d take to make the stuffing and cranberry sauce as you work your way through bustling around the kitchen today.
A short, sassy listen, almost sure to make you chuckle, if not outright snort with laughter.
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