{"product_id":"raising-raffi-the-first-five-years-hardcover","title":"Raising Raffi: The First Five Years - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKeith Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A wise, mild and enviably lucid book about a chaotic scene.\" --Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Memoirs of fatherhood are rarely so honest or so blunt.\" --Daniel Engber, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An instant classic.\" --M. C. Mah, \u003ci\u003eRomper\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY \u003ci\u003eLIT HUB \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp; \u003ci\u003eTHE MILLIONS\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An unsparing, loving account of fatherhood and the surprising, magical, and maddening first five years of a son's life \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I was not prepared to be a father--this much I knew.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKeith 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFatherhood 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 Whatever rulebooks once existed for this sort of thing seem irrelevant or outdated.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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten over the first five years of Raffi's life, \u003ci\u003eRaising Raffi\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eRaising Raffi \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of what it means to invent the world anew.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKeith Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Terrible Country\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll the Sad Young Literary Men\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a founding editor of \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e. He has translated or co-translated, from Russian, the work of Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Kirill Medvedev, and Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich's \u003ci\u003eVoices from Chernobyl\u003c\/i\u003e. A regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, Gessen teaches journalism at Columbia and lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Emily Gould, and their two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.47 x 5.79 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 07, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47186538332409,"sku":"9780593300442","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/T1p4WWNVbE44YmFlS0RvQk1kWDU2QT09.webp?v=1767841683","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/raising-raffi-the-first-five-years-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}