Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear Audiobook (Free)

‘Kim Brooks’s moving narration is the great automobile for the theatre surrounding her arrest for any momentary lapse in judgement…Brooks’s lyrical writing and largely dispassionate narration can pull parents into this larger active and restore their independence to do what they believe is best seeing that parents.’ – AudioFile Magazine

This program carries a bonus interview with the author.

One morning hours, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to keep her four-year outdated son in the automobile while she ran into a about Small Animals: Parenthood in age Fear store. What occurred would consume another many years of her lifestyle and spur her to research the broader part America’s lifestyle of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all emotions natural in parenting, will there be any more common or profound than dread? Why have our notions of what it means to be always a great parent changed therefore radically? In what methods do these changes influence the lives of parents, children, and the structure of society at large? And what, in the long run, will the rise of fearful parenting tell us about ourselves?

Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Brooks’s own story, Small Pets is certainly a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting offers profoundly altered the encounters of parents and children. In her signature style-by turns funny, penetrating, and usually illuminating-which has dazzled an incredible number of enthusiasts and been known as ‘dazzling’ by New York Times Book Review and ‘beautiful’ from the National Book Critics Circle, Brooks gives a provocative, compelling family portrait of parenthood in the us and calls us to examine what we should most value inside our relationships with this children and one another.

Praise for Little Animals:

‘Small Animals interrogates how exactly we consider risk as parents, how we judge one another’s parenting and what the costs might be – not only to parents, but to children, too -of a culture of constant monitoring.’ – NY Times Publication Review

‘Part memoir, component history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto…it could be the main book about being a parent that you will ever read.’ -Emily Rapp Dark, New York Situations bestselling writer of The Still Point from the Turning World

“Small Animals by Kim Brooks, came at me such as a large exhalation, a release of so a lot of the strain I’ve transported around since [growing to be] a mom.” – Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers