Modern Family: Three Readings

Ada Calhoun’s Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give is a collection of seven essays celebrating the beauty of the imperfect marriage. Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Kim Brooks’s own story, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear, is a riveting examination of the ways our culture of competitive, anxious, and judgmental parenting has profoundly altered the experiences of parents and children. In true stories that cut to the quick. Dawn Davies explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective in Mothers of Sparta.