![]() ![]() ![]() You can do the math: It’s 2011, which means that Greene and Samuel are entering their fourth decade of parenting.Īs the first four – Molly, Seth, Lee, and Lily – grew, as children inevitably do, Greene and Samuel, who so loved “the cumbersome richness of life, with children underfoot,” wanted nothing more than for the good times to continue. ![]() The premise, so understated, is mind-boggling: “This book is one woman’s musings on the adventures of life with one man and many children.” That “one man” is hubby Don Samuel, who preferred to put the children to bed practicing his closing arguments – as a criminal defense attorney, he spends his days with some of the seedier members of society – over reading the predictable “Berenstain Bears” stories.Īs for those “many children,” four are of the “homemade” variety (with birth years ranging from 1981 to 1992), while five more are “foreign-born” and arrived school-aged over the course of another decade, up to the arrival of the last two in 2007. Welcome to two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene’s latest title, No Biking in the House Without a Helmet. ![]() You just know that a book’s going to be good if you’ve already guffawed and the type has started to blur (even though you’re trying not to get overly emotional) when you’ve barely even finished the introduction. As her children grow, author Melissa Fay Greene decides to extend parenthood by adopting five more ![]()
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