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The Two Saddest Kitchens: A Comics Conversation by Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein

$29.99

The New Yorker cartoonist duo, #1 New York Times bestselling author Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein, team up to pull back the curtain on our hilarious, all-too-relatable kitchen realities.

The kitchen is the “heart of the home,” or at least it’s supposed to be. But even when the countertops look tidy, there’s often madness lurking at the back of the refrigerator . . .

When celebrated New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein admitted to each other that their kitchens were far from shiny beacons of homemaking, they knew they couldn’t be the only ones who left the dishes to soak for a little too long.

In The Two Saddest Kitchens, Roz and Jason combine their hilarious cartoon sensibilities to take stock of what’s really going on in our kitchens—from Tupperware Drawer Tetris to the cabinet over the fridge where the forgotten yard-sale ice bucket and stale marshmallows go to die—filling each laugh-out-loud page with a new perspective on optimizing our kitchens and our cooking skills as they ponder the fancy utensils that will never be used, the recipes that will never be followed, and the people they will never be.

If you’ve ever found yourself hungrily wandering into the kitchen only to find too-ripe-even-for-banana-bread bananas and expired cheese, rest assured that Roz and Jason have already been there too—and this book is for you.

Specs:
192 pages | Hardcover
Four-color illustrations throughout
9.5 in H | 7.8 in W | 0.7 in T | 1.7 lb Wt
ISBN: 9781639735181

The New Yorker cartoonist duo, #1 New York Times bestselling author Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein, team up to pull back the curtain on our hilarious, all-too-relatable kitchen realities.

The kitchen is the “heart of the home,” or at least it’s supposed to be. But even when the countertops look tidy, there’s often madness lurking at the back of the refrigerator . . .

When celebrated New Yorker cartoonists Roz Chast and Jason Adam Katzenstein admitted to each other that their kitchens were far from shiny beacons of homemaking, they knew they couldn’t be the only ones who left the dishes to soak for a little too long.

In The Two Saddest Kitchens, Roz and Jason combine their hilarious cartoon sensibilities to take stock of what’s really going on in our kitchens—from Tupperware Drawer Tetris to the cabinet over the fridge where the forgotten yard-sale ice bucket and stale marshmallows go to die—filling each laugh-out-loud page with a new perspective on optimizing our kitchens and our cooking skills as they ponder the fancy utensils that will never be used, the recipes that will never be followed, and the people they will never be.

If you’ve ever found yourself hungrily wandering into the kitchen only to find too-ripe-even-for-banana-bread bananas and expired cheese, rest assured that Roz and Jason have already been there too—and this book is for you.

Specs:
192 pages | Hardcover
Four-color illustrations throughout
9.5 in H | 7.8 in W | 0.7 in T | 1.7 lb Wt
ISBN: 9781639735181

 

Coming October 6, 2026!

"Frighteningly relatable… In a time where we are bombarded with social media reels of perfect kitchens, it’s refreshing to be reminded that we all have skeletons in our freezers.” —Emerald Martinez, Booklist

Roz Chast is the author of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, a #1 New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; bestseller I Must Be Dreaming; New York City Book Award winner Going into Town; and many more. She lives in Connecticut and New York.


Jason Adam Katzenstein is a cartoonist and comedy writer whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times and MAD Magazine. He is the author and illustrator of Everything Is an Emergency. He lives in New York.