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Kim Brooks

Biography

Kim Brooks

Kim Brooks is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, One Story, The Missouri Review and other journals, and her essays have appeared in Salon, Buzzfeed, New York Magazine, LennyLetter, and on WNYC’s Note to Self. Her debut novel, THE HOUSEGUEST, was published in 2016 by Counterpoint Press. Her memoir, SMALL ANIMALS, is published by Flatiron Books. Brooks lives in Chicago with her family.

Kim Brooks

Books by Kim Brooks

Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
by Kim Brooks - Memoir, Nonfiction, Sociology

One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year-old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America’s culture of fear plays in parenthood. In SMALL ANIMALS, Brooks asks: Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed so radically? In what ways do these changes impact the lives of parents, children and the structure of society at large? And what, in the end, does the rise of fearful parenting tell us about ourselves?