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A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting

by Guy Delisle and Helge Dascher

A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting

Paperback, 190 pages, Farrar Straus & Giroux, List Price: $12.95 |

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Title: A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting
Author: Guy Delisle and Helge Dascher

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A light-hearted graphic novel that looks at the relationship between a parent and child.

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Globetrotting Cartoonist Heads Home In 'User's Guide'

June 27, 2013 • Cartoonist Guy Delisle turns his attention from places like Myanmar and North Korea to the more domestic struggle of child rearing in his wry new book, A User's Guide to Neglectful Parenting. Reviewer Glen Weldon says it's slighter than Delisle's travel books, but "brighter and funnier as well."

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From A User's Guide To Neglectful Parenting by Guy Delisle. Copyright 2013 by Guy Delisle. Excerpted by permission of Drawn & Quarterly.