Supposedly Fun Things display

Woeful weddings, disastrous dinners, horrible holidays: life's hallmark events don't always go to plan. Our Supposedly Fun Things display brings together books with a keen sense of schadenfreude, in which times of celebration go wrong in spectacular (and often entertaining) fashion. Take your seat for dinner between sparring brothers, pack a bag for the honeymoon from hell or join the hunt for a missing child at an adult birthday party—this collection of overlooked classics and new and translated fiction has terrible gatherings for all reading tastes.