Mike Birbiglia presents The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/405392 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad Author: Mike Birbiglia Narrator: J. Hope Stein, Mike Birbiglia Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 9 minutes Release date: June 16, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.57 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Parenting Tips Publisher's Summary: With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child, been a child, or refuses to stop acting like one. In 2016 comedian Mike Birbiglia and poet Jennifer Hope Stein took their fourteen-month-old daughter Oona to the Nantucket Film Festival. When the festival director picked them up at the airport she asked Mike if he would perform at the storytelling night. She said, "The theme of the stories is jealousy." Jen quipped, "You're jealous of Oona. You should talk about that." And so Mike began sharing some of his darkest and funniest thoughts about the decision to have a child. Jen and Mike revealed to each other their sides of what had gone down during Jen's pregnancy and that first year with their child. Over the next couple years, these stories evolved into a Broadway show, and the more Mike performed it the more he heard how it resonated—not just with parents but also people who resist all kinds of change. So he pored over his journals, dug deeper, and created this book: The New One: Painfully True Stories From a Reluctant Dad. Along with hilarious and poignant stories he has never shared before, these pages are sprinkled with poetry Jen wrote as she navigated the same rocky shores of new parenthood. So here it is. This book is an experiment—sort of like a family.