"This is not an etiquette book..."
Those are the very first words of author Amy Alkon in her book, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck (if I had an award to hand out to Best Book Title, I would have already given it to her). And well, to an extent, she is right. Good Manners... is not your conventional etiquette book. It does not come with elaborate instructions of how to lay out cutlery and dining table seating positions.
It is instead about something far more important than etiquette - decent human behaviour. No, that is not really etiquette if one goes by the strict meaning of the word (etiquette has more to do with social norms and the like), but if what you are really concerned about how to behave decently and how to handle the rude, this is pretty much the book for you.
