He's back. The man who brought you the most profane picture book has a new request for children of the world: You Have to Fucking Eat. Like Go the Fuck to Sleep before it, Adam Mansbach does what he does best. He penned a children's book that isn't actually a children's book so much as an ode to angst-ridden parents everywhere:
So why the fuck won't you eat?
Mansbach's offering is so simple that it's genius. Available for pre-order before its November 12 release date, Eat already has bestseller written all over it.
Like many concepts that capture the public conscience, Mansbach won over a new generation of parents. We're not the Cleavers or the Bradys. We're done with pretending that little Bobby is a real champ or that little Susie is made of sugar and spice. Today's moms and dads like a splash of realism (or Baileys, I won't judge) with our morning coffee. We're tired and cranky. And we're frankly tired of being preached at by the slews of 'experts' out there telling us how to raise beautiful human beings.
We love our kids to pieces, yet we can also acknowledge in the same breath that they drive us to use expletive-laden language and guzzle copious amounts of Sauv Blanc.
Mansbach hit a nerve here. From kids who won't fall asleep to kids who won't eat their food—parental exasperation transcends all languages and cultures. No wonder Sleep sold over 1.5 million copies sold worldwide.
"You Have to Fucking Eat breaks the code of child-rearing silence, giving moms and dads new, old, grand-, and expectant a much-needed chance to laugh about a universal problem," reads the writeup on Amazon, and indeed Eat is poised to make the perfect stocking-stuffer or shower gift to your pregnant bestie or even an early holiday, you-deserve-it gift to yourself.
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