Open Book / Open Mind; Liana Finck, "How to Baby"

A New Yorker cartoonist discusses her hilarious illustrated memoir of parenthood.

The event is free but registration is required. After the discussion, there will be a Q&A period and a book signing and sale with Watchung Booksellers. 

Open Book / Open Mind is sponsored by Montclair Public Library Foundation, Watchung Booksellers, the New Jersey Council on Humanities, Rosemary Iversen, Diana and Joe Lunin, David and Mary Lee Jones, and an anonymous donor. We are also grateful for the generous support of our in-kind sponsors, First Congregational Church of Montclair, The George, and Amanti Vino. To support Open Book / Open Mind and other library programs, click here to donate.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Liana Finck is the author of "Let There Be Light," "Passing for Human," " Excuse Me." and a children’s book, "You Broke It!", and is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Mandel Institute Cultural Leadership Fellowship, and a Wallant Award. She has had artist residencies with the American Academy in Berlin, MacDowell, and Yaddo.

ABOUT THE BOOK

"A wryly personal and deeply relatable graphic memoir skewering the “traditional” parenting book to chronicle the absurdities, frustrations, and soaring joys of new parenthood—from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and author." - Penguin Random House

"It’s a parody of books on how to parent an infant—older books that told you it was going to be beautiful and easy and didn’t mention anything difficult...Parenthood isn’t something that you need to trick people into, and those books felt ripe for making fun of."—Publishers Weekly

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