The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

by Mike Birbiglia

J. Hope Stein

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Mike Birbiglia never wanted to be a father. In fact, there are seven very specific reasons he never wanted a kid, including his aversion to sticky surfaces and his less-than-ideal genes: he's had Lyme Disease, a bladder tumor, diabetes, and dangerous sleepwalking, to name a few. Not to mention the fact that Mike generally doesn't think people (including himself) are really all that great.

Then Mike's wife, poet Jen Hope Stein, becomes infected with the contagion "baby fever" and convinces him she'll do all of the parenting and that their lives don't have to change because of future baby Oona....

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  • ISBN10 1538701510
  • ISBN13 9781538701515
  • Publish Date 13 August 2020 (first published 16 June 2020)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 8 March 2024
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Grand Central Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English