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Combining painfully honest memoir, cultural analysis, and reporting, BoyMom is a humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.

“Rapist, school-shooter, incel, man-child, interrupter, mansplainer, boob-starer, birthday forgetter, frat boy, dude-bro, homophobe, self-important stoner, emotional-labor abstainer, non-wiper of kitchen counters. Trying to…

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1 author picked BoyMom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Ruth’s gentle, funny, and deeply wise reflections on raising boys struck a nerve in me as a father.

It’s not just a parenting book—it’s about nurturing tenderness and a sense of wonder in a world that too often demands toughness. 

Ruth gave me fresh language for something I’ve long felt: that creating beauty and giving love—especially to the next generation—is the most radical kind of spirituality there is.

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