03567cam a2200301 4500 587801852 TxAuBib 20220722120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593592694 0593592697 23fef674-aeaf-48bf-bf7e-ca595d7221cd OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6935453 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gessen, Keith. Raising Raffi [Libby] : The First Five Years. Books on Tape, 2022. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 168MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 168MB. Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. Literary Criticism. Nonfiction. HTML:“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times “Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.” —Daniel Engber, The Atlantic “An instant classic.” —M. C. Mah, Romper NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONS An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son’s life “I was not prepared to be a father—this much I knew.” Keith Gessen was nearing forty and hadn’t given much thought to the idea of being a father. He assumed he would have kids, but couldn’t imagine what it would be like to be a parent, or what kind of parent he would be. Then, one Tuesday night in early June, the distant idea of fatherhood came careening into view: Raffi was born, a child as real and complex and demanding of his parents’ energy as he was singularly magical. Fatherhood is another country: a place where the old concerns are swept away, where the ordering of time is reconstituted, where days unfold according to a child’s needs. Whatever rulebooks once existed for this sort of thing seem irrelevant or outdated. Overnight, Gessen’s perception of his neighborhood changes: suddenly there are flocks of other parents and babies, playgrounds, and schools that span entire blocks. Raffi is enchanting, as well as terrifying, and like all parents, Gessen wants to do what is best for his child. But he has no idea what that is. Written over the first five years of Raffi’s life, Raising Raffi examines the profound, overwhelming, often maddening experience of being a dad. Gessen traces how the practical decisions one must make each day intersect with some of the weightiest concerns of our age: What does it mean to choose a school in a segregated city? How do you instill in your child a sense of his heritage without passing on that history’s darker sides? Is parental anger normal, possibly useful, or is it inevitably authoritarian and destructive? How do you get your kid to play sports? And what do you do, in a pandemic, when the whole world seems to fall apart? By turns hilarious and poignant, Raising Raffi is a story of what it means to invent the world anew. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-21 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=23fef674-aeaf-48bf-bf7e-ca595d7221cd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=23fef674-aeaf-48bf-bf7e-ca595d7221cd&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)