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Fraternal Youth: Fatherhood Fails and Other Tales with Boy-Girl Twins - Paperback
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Description
by Darby Jones (Author)
Doom's overdone, so Darby shares hope and hard laughs.
Fraternal Youth is an experimental memoir with QR codes to videos and cultural artifacts such as:
- their dog fetching beer from the fridge (a COVID project)
- gladiator funboard challenges
- family performances
- mom pranks
- gag reels
Fraternal Youth Cocktail:5 parts fatherhood fails + the absurdity of life
4 parts goofy boy-girl twins + their crazy pets
3 parts adventure (Bonnaroo, Greece, hitchhiking)
2 parts peaceful parenting + simple discipline systems
1 part Headlines of Hope: a six-year hunt for tech, medical and energy breakthroughs + my comical spin
Praise for Fraternal Youth⭐ "Mix Jim Gaffigan, Erma Bombeck and Pee Wee Herman into a Darby Smoothie. Add a dash of nonsense that makes perfect sense and you've got a compilation that spans from raising kids to raising hell. I'm an avid fan."
- Wendy Parker, satirist for Overdrive Magazine
⭐ "Darby stunned me with this book. It's happy, funny, sad and weird - all the things that make up a life well lived, and he tells it with such beauty and momentum. So many chapters swept me away."
- Ginger Cook, Substack Humorist
Early ExcerptsI changed my first diaper on August 27, 2007. It smelled like fermented mothballs with a touch of failed dreams. I don't know where those subtle notes came from, but they were good reminders to use birth control.
2 years, 8 months oldKids got in trouble at the store. Finn dropped a can of tinned pork on Melina's middle toe. The SPAM survived, but Momma no longer has a piggy that eats roast beef. The toe's still there, but it's a scarred vegetarian now.
3 years, 8 months"Finn, didn't you say you'd drink your juice after dinner?"
"I didn't hear me say that."
4 years, 10 months"Shhhh! I heard a sound make a noise." - Fiona
5 years, 11 months"Every time you go into war, you should go potty first." - Finn
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