A review by kyleigharies
A Job You Mostly Won't Know How to Do by Pete Fromm

3.0

The second half had me tearing up and ultimately earned it the third star, but overall, this book straight up AMBLES. All I knew about it upon cracking the spine was that it’s about a man forced to raise his newborn alone after his wife dies in childbirth. I was anticipating dark, weighty, and agonizing, with moments of reprieve in the form of baby milestones, but it was extremely PG in every sense. It’s like a St.John’s Bay button down from Penney’s—the craftsmanship is good enough, but it’s boring, safe. Nothing unexpected. It’s full of region and industry specific jargon to the point of feeling contrived (WE GET IT, HE’S A CARPENTER.) It’s like if Three Men and a Baby was set in Montana, but it was just one man and that man was Bob Vila.