Sam Apple’s new book American Parent: My Strange and Surprising Adventures in Modern Babyland is out this summer. It is brilliant, funny, poignant and surprisingly enlightening. I highly recommend that you go out and nab a copy whether you’re a parent, want to be one or would run a mile in the opposite direction at the sight of a stork.

Bio: Originally from the UK, Hasdai Westbrook is a freelance writer now based in Baltimore. He is working on his first novel, and his Guernica article Swarms at the Border can be read “here”:https://guernicamag.com/features/199/swarms_at_the_border/.

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