You Have to Fucking Eat

by Adam Mansbach (Author), Adam Mansbach (Author), Illustrator Owen Brozman (Illustrator)

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Hardcover
2014
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From the author of the international bestseller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving and deeply cathartic, YOU HAVE TO FUCKING EAT breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving new, old, grand- and expectant parents a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem.* *(You probably shouldn't read it to your children.)

Synopsis

From the author of the international bestseller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP comes a book about the other great parental frustration: getting your little angel to eat something that even vaguely resembles a normal meal. Profane, loving and deeply cathartic, YOU HAVE TO FUCKING EAT breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving new, old, grand- and expectant parents a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem.* *(You probably shouldn't read it to your children.)

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 32
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 12 Nov 2014
ISBN 10: 1782116362
ISBN 13: 9781782116363
Book Overview: MANSBACH IS BACK!!! THIS TIME HE'S STAYING FOR DINNER

Media Reviews

Praise for GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP: Bedtime stories will never be the same again * * Guardian * *
An instantly recognisable and timeless theme tune for bleary-eyed parents everywhere . . . very funny * * The Times * *
A gleeful howl of blasphemy . . . for the exhausted parent, nudged to the brink of sanity by lack of sleep, GTFTS is more than a reason to snigger - it's a gesture of compassion * * The Daily Telegraph * *
A new bible for weary parents * * New York Times * *
The mother of all children's books * * Today Show * *
An anthem for profane parents * * Time Magazine * *

Author Bio

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the bestselling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Poets & Writers, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, was born in 2006.