Fiction. Illustrated by Ricardo Cortés. GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. In the process, they open up a conversation about parenting, granting us permission to admit our frustrations, and laugh at their absurdity. With illustrations by Ricardo Cortés, GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP is beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny—a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.

"A children's book for grown-ups! I really did laugh out loud—hilarious!"—David Byrne

"Total genius."—Jonathan Lethem

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005. He is the author of the #1 best seller GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP (Akashic Books, 2011) and the follow-up version for kids, SERIOUSLY, JUST GO TO SLEEP (Akashic Books, 2012). His fiction and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Believer, Granta, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is the 2010-2011 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University. His daughter, Vivien, is three.

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