Parents Behaving Badly

Name: Parents Behaving Badly
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Scott Gummer
ISBN: 9781611200560

Author: Scott Gummer

Narrator: Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged: 7 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 04/12/2011

Categories: Fiction, Sports

Synopsis

Parents Behaving Badly is an uproarious, surprising, and poignant satire of American suburbia and youth sports gone wild. Everyone that has ever been involved with youth sports can relate. Kids, coaches, friends, family - everyone knows 'that guy' or 'that mom. The setting is Little League, but the experiences and issues are universal. Layered beneath the book's laugh out loud action are provocative questions about the what ifs of our adolescence, the lost art of personal interaction in the age of texting and Twitter and Facebook, what constitutes infidelity, and blurring the line between fair play and bad sports. Parents Behaving Badly is a good, fun read that will make you laugh, make you think, and make for conversation in bleachers and on sidelines everywhere.

About Scott Gummer

Scott Gummer is the author of two books, The Seventh at St. Andrews and Homer Kelley's Golfing Machine, and has contributed to over forty magazines including Vanity Fair, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, and more. He lives with his wife and children in Sonoma wine country, where he has coached youth sports at every level from peewee boys to high school varsity girls, and where he serves on the Little League Board of Directors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on April 24, 2011

I won this advance copy in a goodreads giveaway. Parents Behaving Badly centers around the Holden family. After raising three children in Manhattan, Ben and Jili move the family back to their hometown of Palace Valley, California to care for Jili's aging mother. When Ben's father, a beloved retired......more

Goodreads review by Linda on July 28, 2011

Well, this was definately a pleasant surprise!How does an author mix a satirical behind the scenes look at Parents Gone Mad little league action with a look inside the life of a middle-aged couple uprooted from their big city East Coast life, returning to their small town West Coast roots? How does......more

Goodreads review by Norma on April 24, 2011

When I first started this book I wasn't sure if I could finish it. I'm glad I stuck with it. Scott Gummer pulled me in and made the characters believable to me. I loved Gummer's humor and his story. Having had a child in Little League baseball, I can tell you that Gummer is "spot on" when he talks a......more

Goodreads review by Doria on March 23, 2011

I found this book very easy to read from the time I picked it up until I put it down, finished a few hours later. The topic hit very close to home. Keeping me very much inclined to turn the next page seeing how the author could some how peek into my own life yet again. I liked it enough to want to f......more

Goodreads review by Robin on March 29, 2011

I won this as a giveaway so I really wanted to just love it. But I didn't. Maybe I set myself up for not liking it by having such high expectations, I don't know. There were 3 different story lines going on at once, Ben's relationship with his now dead father, his relationship with his wife, and coa......more