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Someone Could Get Hurt
Drew Magary
A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood
Gotham
May 2013
On Sale: May 16, 2013
256 pages
ISBN: 159240832X
EAN: 9781592408320
Kindle: B009VMBIJ0
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Humor | Non-Fiction Memoir
A sharp, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood and
the ups and downs of raising a family in modern America
No one writes about family quite like Drew
Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin
columnist’s stories about trying to raise a family have
attracted millions of readers online. And now he’s finally
bringing that unique voice to a memoir. In Someone Could
Get Hurt, he reflects on his own parenting experiences
to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and
overpowering love that come with raising children in
contemporary America.
In brutally honest and
funny stories, Magary reveals how American mothers and
fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk
while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child
defiantly pees in a hotel pool, engaging in role-play with a
princess-crazed daughter), and how stepping back can
sometimes make all the difference (talking a toddler down
from the third story of a netted-in playhouse, allowing
children to make little mistakes in the kitchen to keep them
from making the bigger ones in life). It’s a celebration of
all the surprises—joyful and otherwise—that come with being
part of a real family.
In the wake of recent
bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their
children better, Someone Could Get
Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt defense of
American child rearing with a glimpse into the genuine love
and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic.
It’s the story of head lice, almost-dirty words, and flat
head syndrome, and a man trying to commit the ultimate act
of selflessness in a selfish world.
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