American Home Life
by David Barringer
6x9 | 200 pages | 2007
ISBN 9780977815129
So New Publishing
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Bob Sassone: "We all have our lists of writers we love, those writers that not everyone in the world knows about but should. Sometimes we keep these writers close to us and don't tell anyone. But the hell with all that. A great, talented writer deserves to be known to everyone, which is one reason why you should read the work of David Barringer."
Interviewed by Bob Sassone.
Kevin Fanning: "Really, really excellent, highly recommended for any dad with young kids. It's written 15 minutes into the future, so there's a few places where he's talking about a certain technology and you're like 'Wait, do we have that?' It's fun. The chapter called 'Fact' is something I want every person on the planet to read. One of my favorite chapters of all time."
Stacy Cottrell: "It's not every day I find a book I love. Barringer examines a couple's playful attempt to raise two well-rounded children, while preventing them from being trapped by greed, envy and the monotony of suburban life. The book jacket calls it 'the literary equivalent of a TV sitcom,' which would make sense if sitcoms were smart, funny and addictive."
Steven Himmer (Tawny Grammar): "Henry Doran, narrator and father in the novel, relies on his own imagination to keep daughter Lilly and son Lance engaged with the world.... It is also, finally, a novel about how to be an artist and a father at once, as Henry struggles to balance his own writing and creativity with paying bills and washing dishes and taking care of sick children... I hope I can be as imaginative a father as Henry Doran, and perhaps write about it half as well as David Barringer has."
