Dan Savage’s nationally syndicated sex information column, ‘Savage Love,’ enrages and excites more than four million people every week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy tale of a typical American couple who would like to have an infant. Except that in cases like this the couple is actually Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a culture enormously uneasy with homosexual adoption, produces an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating go through. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant terribly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up inside a episode that expands well beyond the confines of their instant world. A tale about confronting homophobia, dropping in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, A CHILD is a book about the human desire to have a family.