{"product_id":"you-should-have-been-nicer-to-my-mom-a-modern-gothic-horror","title":"You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom: A Modern Gothic Horror","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a hell of fun read.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabino Iglesias (Locus)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A thrilling ride...\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eYou Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is fun, thoughtful, and critical.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReactor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A ridiculously enjoyable book to read.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Swords of the Ancients\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sinister and compelling psychological chiller about the perils of assimilation in a community that doesn't want you. Difficult to read at times, but that's simply because Vincent Tirado's writing is so raw, so corrosive, so undeniably brilliant. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Came to Welcome You \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis nasty, playful, and deeply unsettling.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e - \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A creeptastic, tongue-in-cheek combination of \u003ci\u003eThe Stepford Wives\u003c\/i\u003e and Invasion of the \u003ci\u003eBody Snatchers\u003c\/i\u003e all wrapped up into a cookie-cutter-suburb nightmare.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist on We Came to Welcome You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A deeply disconcerting and fully engrossing tale that explores the dangers of conformity and the effects of assimilation on the mind, body, and spirit. Vincent's work casts off the illusion of a white picket fence as protection and asks you to consider that the real monsters are the ones who lurk behind it.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKalynn Bayron, New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Is Dead and Sleep Like Death, on We Came to Welcome You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDemons clash with inheritance claims as secrets unfold and violence is unleashed over twelve harrowing hours trapped in a house with the worst thing imaginable: family.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Papi Ramon, the patriarch of the wealthy Abreu family dies, he gives the family one last message in the will: \"One of you is el bacà, the demon that I made a deal with. Get rid of them or you will be damned.\" Xiomara, the uncontested favorite of Papi Ramon (and therefore the least liked in the family), watches as everyone dismisses this as the joke of a senile old man and demands the lawyer obtain the previous will Papi wrote.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile the lawyer drives back to his office, a storm breaks out, forcing the entire family--Xiomara's aunts and uncles and cousins--to remain in the house. And the words of Papi's will hangs over their heads even heavier than the rain clouds. Over the course of the night, scandal after scandal is revealed to the public about the family. Suddenly a tense few hours of surviving her family turns into a vicious night of recrimination, violence, accusations...and murder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eXiomara is faced with an impossible task: uproot a demon and somehow kill it or excise the ghosts that linger within her own family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the clock is ticking...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780063383234, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/23\/2026 pg. 1 (EAN 9780063383234, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eTirado, Vincent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVincent Tirado \u003c\/strong\u003eis a nonbinary Afro-Dominican Bronx native. 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