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SOMEONE COULD GET HURT
By: 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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Non-Fiction Memoir | Humor
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 columnistβs stories about trying to raise a family have attracted millions of readers online. And now heβs 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). Itβs a celebration of all the surprisesβjoyful and otherwiseβthat come with being part of a real family.
In the wake of recent bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their children better,Β Someone Could Get HurtΒ 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. Itβs 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.
 Media BuzzAll Things Considered - June 14, 2013
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