Someone Could Get Hurt: A Memoir of Twenty-First-Century Parenthood by Drew Magary
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was a fun book to read, and a quick one. I enjoy Magary's writing for Deadspin - always funny and usually smart. This book is his take on raising kids and did not disappoint.
The book opens with one of his children having a life-threatening condition as an infant and he immediately dives in to the gory details and the practical nature of how scary and gross it all is. While he could veer into being a typical guy in his book's narrative, he doesn't; instead he demonstrates being a pretty sensitive, self-aware, and involved father. True, he and his wife align on classic gender roles and she is indulgent to his boy-like behaviors, but most of the book is a humorous reflection on parenting from someone who has spent a long time thinking about it.
I add as a footnote the following link, a sort of denouement to this book, wherein he gets a vasectomy and it goes a bit wrong...http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-amazing-true-story-of-my-exploding-balls-1661128148
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