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Small Animals - Parenthood in the Age of Fear (Paperback)
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Small Animals - Parenthood in the Age of Fear (Paperback)
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Loot Price R411
Discovery Miles 4 110
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One cool spring morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to
leave her four-year-old son in the car while she ran into a store.
What happened would consume the next several years of her life and
ultimately motivated her to begin writing about the broader subject
of parenthood and fear. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the
emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or
profound than fear? To be a parent is to be afraid. And yet, the
objects and intensity of our fear vary based on culture,
temperament, and the historical moment in which we live. In the
signature style - by turns funny, penetrating, and always
illuminating - that has dazzled millions of fans of the essays she
publishes in New York Magazine, LennyLetter, Salon, and Buzzfeed,
Brooks blends personal memoir, investigative reporting and
sociological critique to ask: Why have our notions of what it means
to be a good parent changed so radically in the course of a
generation? In what ways do these changes impact the lives of
parents, children, and the structure of society at large? And what,
in the end, does the rise of fearful parenting tell us about our
children, our communities, and ourselves? By telling her own story
and probing our culture at large, Brooks offers a provocative,
compelling portrait of parenthood in American and calls us to
examine what we most value in our relationships with our children
and one another.
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