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Small Animals audiobook
- By: Kim Brooks
- Narrator: Kim Brooks
- Category: Family & Relationships, Motherhood, Parenting
- Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: August 21, 2018
- Language: English
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Small Animals Audiobook Summary
“Kim Brooks’s moving narration is the perfect vehicle for the drama surrounding her arrest for a momentary lapse in judgement…Brooks’s lyrical writing and largely dispassionate narration will draw parents into this larger dynamic and restore their freedom to do what they believe is best as parents.” — AudioFile Magazine
This program includes a bonus interview with the author.
One 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 spur her to investigate the broader role America’s culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed so radically? 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 ourselves?
Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Brooks’s own story, Small Animals is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In her signature style–by turns funny, penetrating, and always illuminating–which has dazzled millions of fans and been called “striking” by New York Times Book Review and “beautiful” by the National Book Critics Circle, Brooks offers a provocative, compelling portrait of parenthood in America and calls us to examine what we most value in our relationships with our children and one another.
Praise for Small Animals:
“Small Animals interrogates how we weigh risk as parents, how we judge one another’s parenting and what the costs might be — not just to parents, but to children, too –of a culture of constant surveillance.” — New York Times Book Review
“Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto…it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read.” —Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World
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Small Animals Audiobook Narrator
Kim Brooks is the narrator of Small Animals audiobook that was written by Kim Brooks
Kim Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, The Missouri Review, and other journals, and her essays have appeared in Salon, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, LennyLetter, and on WNYC’s Note to Self. Her debut novel, The Houseguest, was published in 2016 by Counterpoint Press. Her memoir, Small Animals, is published by Flatiron Books. Brooks lives in Chicago with her family.
About the Author(s) of Small Animals
Kim Brooks is the author of Small Animals
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Small Animals Full Details
| Narrator | Kim Brooks |
| Length | 8 hours 14 minutes |
| Author | Kim Brooks |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | August 21, 2018 |
| ISBN | 9781427298225 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Small Animals is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Family & Relationships, Motherhood, Parenting
Additional info
The publisher of the Small Animals is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781427298225.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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