![]() ![]() Maybe it’s the Wes Andersonification that happened to us in our early twenties (plus also of course the coddling by our own parents, which is still going on, even among my friends who do have children). Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years (I’m thirty-one), quite like this deranged book: we are not really adults. The book is super funny, and the art, by Ricardo Cortés, is perversely sweet, so sweet and genuine that it made me cringe. “Go the Fuck to Sleep” has gone viral, which is only fitting: Mansbach was inspired to write it after posting the idea as a joke on Facebook (he has a daughter, Vivian, who used to take two hours to go to sleep) and getting an enormous positive response from his friends. I’m struck now by my naïvété: of course (of course!) that PDF had been forwarded by those untrustworthy booksellers to everyone and their brother, which I know because last night, three separate people, none of whom work anywhere near books, e-mailed it to me out of the blue. ![]() It made me wish I were among the lucky booksellers who’d been sent a PDF-knowing I would have to wait for the galley to read the rest was nearly unbearable. You’re cozy and warm in your bed, my dear Please go the fuck to sleep. The cats nestle close to their kittens now. ![]()
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