The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad

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Label

The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad

Title remainder

painfully true stories from a reluctant dad

Statement of responsibility

Mike Birbiglia ; with poems by J. Hope Stein

Creator

• Birbiglia, Mike

Contributor

• Stein, J. Hope, (Jen Hope)

Author

• Stein, J. Hope, (Jen Hope)
• Birbiglia, Mike

Subject

• Fatherhood -- Humor
• Humorists, American -- Biography
• Parent and child -- Humor
• Parent and child -- Poetry
• Parenting -- Humor
• Birbiglia, Mike
• Parenting -- Poetry
• Birbiglia, Mike -- Family
• Comedians -- Biography

Genre

• Poetry
• Humor
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great. Then Mike's wife, poet Jen Hope Stein, becomes infected with the contagion 'baby fever' and convinces him she'll do all of the parenting and that their lives don't have to change because of future baby Oona. Yes, he bought that line. In a hilarious memoir about the trials and tribulations of parenting, Mike Birbiglia shares anecdotes all parents can relate to, including laugh-out-loud observations on the lead up to being a parent, the birth of the baby, and the very messy aftermath of bringing this new one home...for a forever stay! Borne out of and based on his Broadway show The New One, and entirely expanded upon with at least 50% new material for this book, new dad Birbiglia will have you crying from laughter and smiling with joy as he falls in love with baby Oona, despite how smelly she is! Mike's candid thoughts on his reluctance about becoming a dad, what he describes as being the 'pudgy milkless vice president of his family,' laced with Stein's poetry combine to form a heartfelt and hilarious book"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

• 792.7/6028092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

PN2287.B45463

LC item number

A3 2020

Literary form

non fiction