a body more tolerable small press There's no way The Joker

There's no way The Joker has stood over his son's bed and put that book in his hands

in this very funny bedtime book from New Yorker contributors Patricia Marx and Roz Chast

Set in the present day

with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions

By the fall of 1963

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