CATHERINE NEWMAN has written a gazillion columns, articles, and canned-bean recipes for magazines and newspapers, and her essays have been widely anthologized. She is the author of the memoirs Waiting for Birdy and Catastrophic Happiness, the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night, and the bestselling kids' life-skills books How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? We All Want Impossible Things is her first adult novel. Not, like, adult adult in the porn way. Just, you know, for grown-ups. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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A comic and heartwarming memoir about childhood's second act from Real Simple journalist Catherine Newman. Much is written about a child's infancy and toddler years, which is good since children will never remember it themselves. It is ages 4-14 that ... SEE MORE