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Book

Catastrophic happiness : finding joy in childhood's messy years

Call Number

  • PARENTS J 649.1 NEWM (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2016.

Physical Description

vii, 215 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

The author discusses the bittersweet joy of raising children as she describes her family's own journey.

Contents

  • Prologue: It gets better
  • Civilizing
  • Enduring
  • Learning
  • Inquiring
  • Launching
  • Faltering
  • Becoming
  • Epilogue: And better still.

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