The Guest
The Unwritten and Forgotten Rules: an introduction and twenty chapters on the habits of guests, and what we owe the people who open their doors to us.
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Every gathering has its guests. Every guest has their habits. Most of those habits go unnamed, not because they are hard to see, but because nobody wants to be the one who names them.
The Guest is a warm, quietly funny, and deeply honest look at the behaviour we all recognise but rarely say out loud. Beneath the social observations runs something larger: we are not just guests at dinner parties. We are guests in each other's lives, in our communities, in the places that opened their doors to us. The question is whether we remember that once we have made ourselves comfortable.
Introduction & Chapters
