Ferociously Close to Home: A Close to Home Collection

By John McPherson and Eric Zweig

Ferociously Close to Home delivers McPherson's trademark take on the absurdities of everyday life. To say that his solutions to these perplexing situations is "out there" is an understatement. Consider Gina, who decides a branding iron will be the ideal memory aid for her birthday date-challenged husband. And poor Lanny, whose treadmill session is interrupted when he inadvertently triggers the health club's offensive odor alarm. 

McPherson has long walked the line between grotesque and goofy. But somehow, his figures with big noses and bulging eyes connect with readers with a surefire magnetic precision. Whether it's health care or parenting, dating or car repairs, Close to Home delivers McPherson's warped world without fail.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Release date: Nov 6, 2012
• ISBN: 9780740792861

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Other Close to Home Books

by John McPherson

Close to Home

One Step Closer to Home

Dangerously Close to Home

Home: The Final Frontier

The Honeymoon Is Over

The Silence of the Lamberts

Striking Close to Home

The Close to Home Survival Guide

Close to Home Uncut

The Scourge of the Vinyl Car Seats

Close to Home Exposed

Treasury Collections

Close to Home Revisited

Close to Home Unplugged

Also from John McPherson

High School Isn’t Pretty

Close to Home: A Book of Postcards

The Barber of Bingo

The Get Well Book

Give Mommy the Superglue and Other Tips on Surviving Parenthood

For Nancy Butcher

The middle is regular carpeting. The perimeter rung is Velcro, and the twins are wearing Velcro boots. Needless to say, life has gotten a whole lot easier around here!

Quickly deciding that her date is a loser, Brenda makes a tactical maneuver to keep the evening as short as possible.

. . . So, while you were sleeping, I talked to the doctors and they worked it out so you can still keep building the deck when you get home.

I’ll give you each a three-second head start then I’ll send Choonga up after you. If he catches you before you reach the top, you owe me twenty laps around the track.

To her horror, Bernice triggers the store’s Used-the-Rest-Room-but-Didn’t-Make-a-Purchase alarm.

"Whoa! He, Gina . . . I, uh . . . really messed up! I swear to you, I