I read & loved Kate Brigg’s *This Little Art* — and her new book looks lovely. May recommend it to my friends with young children— sharing here as well for the parents with young ones. #books #parenting “There are three things that all living persons have in common: a body, the certainty of eventual death, and the fact that someone once cared for you, effortfully and around the clock. In the beginning of your life, someone cared—used here to describe an action, not a feeling—enough to sustain that aliveness. We are each a monument, a memorial, to a tremendous amount of labor, done solely on our behalf, that we no longer recall. To paraphrase the child psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott: show me a baby, and I will show you someone nearby.” A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood

The New Yorker

A Novel That Captures the Mind-Bending Early Weeks of Parenthood

In “The Long Form,” Kate Briggs turns the improvisational, immersive, sleep-deprived work of caring for a very young child into fiction.