Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear (Brooks Kim)(Paperback)

'It might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read.' --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World

'Brooks's own personal experience provides the narrative thrust for the book -- she writes unflinchingly about her own experience.... Readers who want to know what happened to Brooks will keep reading to learn how the case against her proceeds, but it's Brooks's questions about why mothers are so judgmental and competitive that give the book its heft.' --NPR

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