重点推荐下 Once More We Saw Stars，有对应的繁体中文版，看了下淘宝有
英文原版也已加入LAB Reads （Apple Store 搜索）
原标题：Books About Kids, for Adults
原作者：MYLES POYDRAS
原刊于：Atlatnic, May 30, 2020
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J. D. Salinger understood how children can change adults’ experience of the world. Many of his stories prominently feature child characters who reinvigorate their adult counterparts, as is the case in his short story “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” about a military man meeting a 13-year-old girl before leaving for World War II.
In Leïla Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny, the birth of a young couple’s second child leaves them feeling trapped and leads them to hire a caregiver—with tragic results. The loss of a child can be transformative in a different way; Jayson Greene’s memoir, Once More We Saw Stars, is about the author’s experience of grieving the sudden death of his young daughter.
Novels by J. M. Coetzee and Caitlin Horrocks each tell a story about a preternaturally gifted boy. In both Coetzee’s The Death of Jesus and Horrocks’s The Vexations, the young main characters’ stubborn self-assurance dismays the people around them.
What We’re Reading
An unsettling trilogy about a possibly divine boy
“On one [of the book’s many levels], Davíd is not the messiah but simply an exceptionally gifted child, the kind of kid with whom the world in general, and the education system in particular, does not know how to deal.”
The Death of Jesus, by J. M. Coetzee
Rewriting the “boy genius”
“Caitlin Horrocks’s debut novel, The Vexations, a fictional dive into the early life of the French composer Erik Satie … creates a wrenching portrait of overconfidence as a destructive force.”
The Vexations, by Caitlin Horrocks
The eerie horrors of The Perfect Nanny
“The children who are dead at the beginning of the book are shown throughout not as idealized innocents, but as complex beings who navigate adult whims, and the line between danger and safety, with a clarity that eludes their elders.”
The Perfect Nanny, by Leïla Slimani
The purgatory that comes after losing a child
“[Jayson] Greene’s memoir grapples with this lesson: the ruinous insight that the world can wound loved ones at random and for no reason.”
Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri
What J. D. Salinger understood about chance encounters
“‘For Esmé—With Love and Squalor’ celebrates missed connections, reminding us that even brief, glancing encounters can be enough to change a person for the better.”
“For Esmé—With Love and Squalor,” by J. D. Salinger
“The National Cage Bird Show,” by A. M. Homes
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