ISBN: 9780593300442
Editorial: Viking
Autor: Gessen, Keith
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 256
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Product Description“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, RomperNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY LIT HUB & THE MILLIONSAn 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 Whatever rulebooks once existed for this sort of thing seem irrelevant or outdated.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.ReviewPraise for Raising Raffi:“A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene. . . . Gessen is a calm and observant writer . . . who raises, and struggles with, the right questions about himself and the world.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times“A father’s careful, piercing introspection, and a deep analysis of anger. . . . Gessen writes about his temperamental, trying son with a depth that can only come from years of loving observation. . . . Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.”—Daniel Engber, The Atlantic“Raising Raffi is good. . . . Parents with toddlers prone to Raffi’s . . . particular brand of ‘uncivil disobedience’ might, like me, find themselves scribbling I FEEL SEEN on every other page. . . . Snappy, smart, relatable. . . . One of the most honest accounts of the rage a parent can feel when personally victimized by their small children, even as they love those children with stupefying tenderness.”—Meghan Flaherty, Slate“Raising Raffi is tender and generous.”—New York magazine“[Gessen] describes the surprising, joyful and often enervating experience of raising Raphael, his son with novelist Emily Gould. . . . Gessen can be funny and self-deprecating.”—Mark Athitakis, The Los Angeles Times“An incisive examination of parenthood—and childhood—written by one of the literary world’s finest.”—Zibby Owens, Katie Couric Media“Gessen’s writing about Raffi is sweet and exasperated and often quite funny.”—Piper French, The Drift“A promising addition to the dad-book canon.”—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic“Raising Raffi is Gessen’s own reckoning with the intellectual and emotional tumult of new fatherhood. . . . [The book] offers a sharp sense of wonder about the quotidian details of fatherho
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