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Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years

Catastrophic Happiness: Finding Joy in Childhood's Messy Years

Newman, Catherine

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingSelf-Help

ISBN10: 031633748X
ISBN13: 9780316337489
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: May 2 2017
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
A comic and heartwarming memoir about the bittersweet joy of raising children, and the ever-evolving landscape of issues parents traverse, from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman.

Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that make up the second act, as Catherine Newman puts it in this delightfully candid, outlandishly funny new memoir about the years that your children will remember as childhood.

Following Newman's son and daughter as they blossom from preschoolers into teenagers, Catastrophic Happiness is about the bittersweet joy of raising children, and the ever-evolving landscape of issues parents traverse. In a laugh out-loud, heart-wrenching, relatable voice, Newman narrates events as momentous as grief and as quietly moving as the moonlit face of a sleeping child.

From tantrums and friendship to fear and even sex, Newman's fresh take will appeal to any parent riding this same roller coaster of laughter and heartbreak.

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