Description From New Yorker humorist Emily Flake, a hilarious, oddly enlightening book of illustrations and observations That embrace the inescapable awkwardness of two human beings attempting to make physical contact with one another We\'ve all been there.
She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, daughter, and a frail, elderly orange cat..
Her illustrations and cartoons appear in publications all over the world, including the New York Times, Newsweek, the Globe and Mail, The Onion, The New Statesman, and Forbes.
She\'s written and illustrated two books: These Things Ain\'t Gonna Smoke Themselves and Mama Tried .
Her weekly strip, Lulu Eightball, ran in alt-weeklies for many years.
About the Author Emily Flake\'s cartoons and humorous essays run regularly in The New Yorker, The Nib, and many other publications.
Filled with laugh-out-loud anecdotes and illustrations, astute observations, and wise advice, That Was Awkward is a heartwarming reminder That we\'re all in this together, grasping hastily at each other in an attempt to say: let\'s embrace to remind ourselves of our essential and connecting humanity, but also, please don\'t touch me for more than three seconds.
Emily Flake--keen observer of human behavior and life\'s less-than-triumphant moments--codifies the most common Awkward hugs That have plagued us all (sadly, multiple times).
That cultural blight we\'ve all experienced.
The Awkward hug.
Do you shake hands? Do you hug? Do you-- horrors --kiss on the cheek? Or-- double horrors --kiss on both cheeks? And then it happens.
That aunt you\'re not sure your mom is cool with.
The elementary school classmate whose name you don\'t quite remember.
Your ex-boyfriend\'s sister.
You encounter your former colleague--the one whom you always suspected had eaten your yogurt That one time.
Description From New Yorker humorist Emily Flake, a hilarious, oddly enlightening book of illustrations and observations That embrace the inescapable awkwardness of two human beings attempting to make physical contact with one another We\'ve all been there
