{"product_id":"go-the-fuck-to-sleep-9781617750250","title":"Go the Fuck to Sleep","description":"One of \u003cem\u003eReader's Digest'\u003c\/em\u003es \"25 Funniest Books of All Time\" \u003cp\u003e\"Nothing has driven home a certain truth about my generation, which is approaching the apex of its childbearing years, quite like this.\" --\u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A parenting zeitgeist\" --\u003cem\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hilarious take on that age-old problem: getting the beloved child to go to sleep.\" --National Public Radio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A new Bible for weary parents\" --\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Resonates powerfully with almost everyone\" --\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cem\u003eGo the Fuck to Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar--and unspoken--tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith illustrations by Ricardo Cort?s, \u003cem\u003eGo the Fuck to Sleep\u003c\/em\u003e is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wittingly funny--a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Mansbach's novels include \u003ci\u003eThe End of the Jews, \u003c\/i\u003e winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling \u003ci\u003eAngry Black White Boy, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2005. His fiction and essays have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eBeliever, Granta, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. He was the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, was his inspiration for \u003ci\u003eGo the F*** to Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRicardo Cortes has illustrated books about marijuana (\u003ci\u003eIt's Just a Plant\u003c\/i\u003e), electricity, the Jamaican bobsled team, Chinese food, and \u003ci\u003eA Secret History of Coffee, Coca \u0026amp; Cola\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle, \u003c\/i\u003e and on the \u003ci\u003eO'Reilly Factor\u003c\/i\u003e and CNN. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50570799546642,"sku":"9781617750250","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9807d15-6184-4ce9-9c8c-abdf9ffa8311.jpg?v=1731961475","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/go-the-fuck-to-sleep-9781617750250","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}