![]() When I mention Louis C.K.'s maxim that you're not really doing the work as a parent if you haven't given your child the finger behind her head, he laughs somewhat uncomfortably. His phone manner is clear-spoken and polite, and he repeatedly emphasizes that his book is not meant as an expression of anything you should ever say directly to a child. In conversation, Mansbach, author of the novels "Angry Black White Boy" and "The End of the Jews," sounds neither angry nor especially profane. Who knew the torments of early parenthood could be so fruitful? What began as an offhand Facebook update - "Look out for my forthcoming children’s book, 'Go the Fuck to Sleep'"- has landed in its first week of publication at the top of the New York Times bestseller list, with a stunning print run of more than 300,000 copies and an option for a movie. Unlike you or me, however, he's turned "Go the F**k to Sleep" into one of the most buzzed about books of the year. Or maybe just telling her to go the fuck to sleep.Īdam Mansbach knows the feeling. In those long, dark helpless nights of torture, you feel like weeping, like pleading to your offspring for mercy. Her tactics? Loud noise, incessant, impossible to fulfill demands, and, most cruelly of all, relentlessly subjecting you to constant sleep deprivation. ![]() ![]() The one when you realize your precious bundle of joy is in fact a CIA operative on a mission to break your will. If you've ever had a young child, it's likely you've had that moment. ![]()
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