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The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad by Mike Birbiglia
4.0
Parenting ain’t no joke! Do any of us really know what we are doing? Its quite clear we have absolutely no idea 99.9% of the time. Birbiglia nails it when he says “I’m mostly scared. This monkey in a jumpsuit stares at me with this look like – I don’t know anything. Do you know anything? I’m thinking, I don’t know anything either.”
The New One is a collaboration of “painfully true stories from a reluctant Dad” and his wife the poet and perhaps the little less reluctant half.
The New One actually started as an off-Broadway show and moved to Broadway. Now also a Netflix series, the book contains new material as well as poetry that Jen wrote.
I thought the collaboration of stories and poetry was sweet, funny and so very true. I think parents will appreciate this dark and laugh-out-loud read.
The New One is a collaboration of “painfully true stories from a reluctant Dad” and his wife the poet and perhaps the little less reluctant half.
The New One actually started as an off-Broadway show and moved to Broadway. Now also a Netflix series, the book contains new material as well as poetry that Jen wrote.
I thought the collaboration of stories and poetry was sweet, funny and so very true. I think parents will appreciate this dark and laugh-out-loud read.