The Kid

Name: The Kid
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Author: Dan Savage
ISBN: 9781101627310

Author: Dan Savage

Narrator: Dan Savage

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 07/11/2013

Categories: Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Parenting, Social Science, Lgbtq+ Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Dan Savage's nationally syndicated sex advice column, "Savage Love," enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In The Kid, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.

About The Author

Dan Savage's column, "Savage Love," is a nationally syndicated sex-advice column read by more than four million people each week. He has written the column for eight years, and it runs in 26 newspapers in the United States and Canada. He also writes "Dear Dan," an online advice column for ABCNews.com. Savage is the associate editor of The Stranger in Seattle and a regular contributor to This American Life on NPR and is the author of Savage Love (Plume), a collection of his advice columns. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on February 08, 2018

Pass the cigars, and make all the dirty cigar jokes you want. Dan Savage, North America’s favourite alt-sex columnist, has become a dad. In The Kid, Savage details his decision to adopt a child with Terry, his boyfriend of less than two years. But the road to same-sex parenthood isn’t smooth, litter......more

Goodreads review by Ana on January 02, 2016

This was such a sweet and funny, and a little sad, but mostly really, really happy adoption story. I really like the writing style and I appreciated how frank the author is about his experience.......more

Goodreads review by Liza on July 20, 2015

I've been on an adoption memoir binge lately, but this is the first memoir I've read about open adoption, and I adored it. It's very Dan Savage, so if you're a reader/listener of Savage Love you can anticipate the tone and how at times you'll be thinking, 'Dan! You can't say that; how offensive!'. I......more

Goodreads review by Castalia on March 05, 2010

I suppose I should say I mostly enjoyed this book despite it being written by Dan Savage. I've never been a fan of his style, his perpetuation of many gay male stereotypes, and his philosophy that cheating is A-OK and possibly inevitable. I liked seeing the adoption process unfolding, and the ending......more

Goodreads review by Hank on February 21, 2018

When Dan wrote this, a gay male couple adopting a baby (with relative ease and almost no wait -- pure fate) was like earning your PhD in Homo Studies. I was in awe of them then, and I'm in awe now (still -- D.J.'s all grows up). Great, funny book about a momentous process. Made it all seem modern an......more

Awards

PEN USA West Award for Fiction