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Author:
Keith Gessen
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
June 7, 2022
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?
What The Reviewers Say
A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.
The Raffi essays raise fascinating and thorny questions about children’s rights to digital privacy, and how the internet has influenced our willingness to accept levels of access into people’s lives we would have once found unthinkable and likely grotesque.
... his book proceeds as so many dad books don’t: with a father’s careful, piercing introspection, and a deep analysis of anger.
Simply by virtue of the fact that Gessen doesn’t treat the occupants of those prams as an obstacle to his writing career, he’s done something unique and valuable... I have to say: I feel seen.
