Book Rec of the Day 3/30/2007

FUNNY FICTION

Think what would happen if Nick Hornby’s About a Boy collided with Mary Rodgers’s Freaky Friday. That’s May Contain Nuts, a madcap novel about the absurd lengths to which today’s parents will go to force their children to achieve. It’s not until Alice puts herself in her daughter’s shoes that she realizes how tough it is to be a kid—especially with a mom like herself. John O’Farrell is “one of the funniest things in Britain” according to People. Read this and you’ll see it’s true.

MAY CONTAIN NUTS: A NOVEL OF EXTREME PARENTING, by John O’Farrell (Black Cat, 2005)