New York Times Bestseller“A trenchant and engrossing book...with extremely impressive research. Salted with insights and and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom...Senior deploys a novelist’s sensibility in giving evidence of [parents’] privileged euphoria All Joy and No Fun inspired me to think differently about being a parent.” —Andrew Solomon, New York Times Book Review“Always generous in tone, Senior is a keen observer of the impact children have on their parents’ marriages, mental health, work, and social lives, and she makes deft use of social-science research. . . . The book’s most useful contribution may be the connection it makes between joy . . . and, surprisingly, grief.” —The New Yorker“An important book, much the way The Feminine Mystique was, because it offers parents a common language, an understanding that they’re not alone in their struggles, and an expl