Fun Places to Gay
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| | | American Theatre Company
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| | | | MCA Stage at the Edlis Neeson Theatre
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| | | | The House Theatre of Chicago at The Palmer House
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| | | | Dick's R U Crazee
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| | | | Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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| | | | DS Tequila Company
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| | | | Wilde Bar and Restaurant
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| | | | Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club
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| | | | Chemically Imbalanced Comedy
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| | | | Writers Theatre
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| | | | Jackalope Theatre Co. at the Storefront Theater
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| | | | Theater Oobleck at Victory Gardens Theater
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| | | | Estelle's
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| | | | Buzz22 Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage
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| | | | Seahorse II Cabaret
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| | | | Greenhouse Theater Center
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| | | | North End
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| | | | Lookingglass Theatre Company
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| | | | Bailiwick Chicago at the Steppenwolf Garage
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| | | | Oracle Productions at Oracle Theatre
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| Tuesday August 21st
Book Launch Party for Small Animals by Kim Brooks 7:00pm
Highly anticipated nonfiction books of the year. Kim will be in conversation with Kathleen Rooney.
One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed so radically? In what ways do these changes impact the lives of parents, children, and the structure of society at large? And what, in the end, does the rise of fearful parenting tell us about ourselves?
Fueled by urgency and the emotional intensity of Brooks's own story, Small Animals 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 her signature style--by turns funny, penetrating, and always illuminating--which has dazzled millions of fans and been called "striking" by New York Times Book Review and "beautiful" by the National Book Critics Circle, Brooks offers a provocative, compelling portrait of parenthood in America and calls us to examine what we most value in our relationships with our children and one another.
Kim Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, The Missouri Review, and other journals, and her essays have appeared in Salon, Buzzfeed, New York magazine, LennyLetter, and on WNYC's Note to Self. Her novel The Houseguest was published in 2016. Kim Brooks lives in Chicago with her husband and their two children.
Event date:
Tuesday, August 21, 2018 - 7:00pm
Event address:
Women & Children First
5233 N. Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60640
Event Website
Women & Children First Bookstore 5233 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640 (773) 769-9299 Location Website
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