The private yet universal ways families communicate in order to function or at least avoid the urge to hit each other with forks at the dining room table - from one of America’s favorite comics.

Tom Papa is a comedic polymath: in his stand-up (five Netflix Specials), on his two radio shows (“Come to Papa” and “What a Joke with Papa and Fortune”), his podcast “Breaking Bread with Tom Papa” and even in his Food Network series “Baked”, he decodes the idiosyncrasies of human behavior. He’s a family comic, a date-night comic, a comic with a warm, optimistic, gentle yet incisive vibe.

In his new book, his fourth, Papa, on the verge of being an empty nester, turns his wry eye on the nuclear family, with its distinctive tribal rituals, personality and vocabulary. Each hilarious chapter, begins with a common familial phrase such as “Does This Look OK to You?”, “Stop Touching Your Sister”, “Do You Live in a Barn?”, “There’s Never Anything to Eat Around Here!”, “I’ll be in the Car” and thirty-four others. Papa makes readers feel a little less alone as he shines a light on the daily struggles that unite everyone who has ever been a part of a family.

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