People I Want to Punch in the Throat Books in Order

Jen Mann turns her attention to holiday rituals, from Christmas letters and cookie exchanges to Easter expectations and family celebrations. Personal essays find humor in exaggerated traditions, awkward gifts, social pressure, and the effort to preserve sanity through festive obligations.

Jen Mann collects irreverent essays about suburban life, motherhood, and marriage. Playgroups, school routines, social gatherings, and everyday status contests reveal the absurd expectations and uncomfortable encounters behind an apparently ordinary family life.

Jen Mann finds comic material in workplace frustrations, from unnecessary meetings and micromanaging bosses to awkward colleagues and demanding clients. Her essays examine the habits, hierarchies, and social expectations that make earning a living exasperating.

Travel mishaps and inconsiderate fellow passengers fuel Jen Mann's comic essays about leaving home. Delays, cramped seats, disappointing accommodations, family conflict, and costly attractions become occasions to question why a vacation so often creates its own need for recovery.