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The Kid

by Dan Savage
Dan Savage
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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.

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  • Release date

    July 11, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781101928509
      • File size: 217645 KB
      • Duration: 07:33:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Though the sex advice columnist reads his award-winning 1999 book too quickly, he sounds sincere and only slightly self-absorbed and dramatic. His rhythms sound repetitive, but his good vocal clarity and confident engagement make this a winning, believable performance. The focus is on how Savage and his partner navigated the predominant heterosexual culture and their own conflicts while trying to adopt a child. His complaints about the adoption process and the frustrations of domestic partnerships are expressed in ribald and entertaining language. He also could not stop himself from offering a full serving of X-rated snippets about gay culture and his own sexual experiences. But what lingers is his moving account of the joy and angst all couples feel when bringing someone else's baby into their lives. T.W. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      August 30, 1999
      Known for his nationally syndicated sex advice columns (collected in Savage Love) and as a regular contributor to NPR's This American Life, Savage recounts what he and his boyfriend of two years went through to adopt a child. After investigating the possibility of becoming biological parents with lesbian friends, Savage and his partner, Terry, pursued an open adoption through an agency. They met Melissa, a homeless "gutter punk," whom they liked, although they worried that she drank and took drugs recreationally at the beginning of her pregnancy. In the end, though, everything worked out for everyone involved. Savage is best when detailing the emotional ups and downs that came with revealing that he was even considering gay parenting, including his anxiety about the possible disapproval of both gay and straight friends, about the ways his sex life would change and about buying the right "baby things." Employing the blunt tone of his columns, Savage humorously and honestly discusses his sexual practices (including bondage and fantasies involving actor Matt Damon), his ambivalence about being a parent and his rage at his homophobic grandmother. His forthrightness is brave and daring in the face of social opposition to gay parenting. However, though Savage's chatty, mercilessly satiric style is effective in his columns and may be intended here to balance the optimistic underpinnings of his journey into parenthood, in this sustained narrative it wears a bit thin.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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