AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR

A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.

`Beguiling ¿ A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ¿ A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.¿ Boston Globe

RIVKA GALCHEN is the author of Atmospheric Disturbances and American Innovations. In 2010 she was named by The New Yorker as one of the top twenty American authors under the age of forty. She lives in New York.