A clear, funny, and heartfelt memoir about fatherhood as well as the fluctuations of raising a family in contemporary America

No-one writes about family quite like Drew Magary. The GQ correspondent and Deadspin columnist’s stories about trying to improve a family possess attracted an incredible number of readers online. And today he’s finally getting that unique voice to a memoir. In Someone Could Get Harm, he reflects by himself parenting experiences to explore the anxiety, rationalizations, compromises, and overpowering about Someone Could Get Harm: A Memoir of 21st-Century Parenthood like that include raising children in contemporary America.

In brutally honest and funny tales, Magary reveals how American mothers and fathers cope with being in over their heads (getting drunk while trick-or-treating, watching helplessly as a child defiantly pees within a hotel pool, participating in role-play with a princess-crazed girl), and exactly how stepping back will often make all of the difference (talking a toddler down from the 3rd story of the netted-in playhouse, allowing kids to make small mistakes in your kitchen to keep them from building the bigger ones in life). It’s a celebration of all the surprises-joyful and otherwise-that include being a part of a real family.

In the wake of recent bestsellers that expose how every other culture raises their children better, Someone Could Get Hurt offers a hilarious and heartfelt defense of American child rearing using a glimpse in to the genuine love and compassion that accompany the missteps and flawed logic. It’s the storyplot of mind lice, almost-dirty phrases, and flat mind syndrome, and a man looking to commit the ultimate act of selflessness is a selfish world.