The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad by Joel B Schwartzberg
Category:	Essays	Publisher:	Wyatt-MacKenzie	ISBN-10:	1932279989
Pages:	156	Copyright:	June 1, 2009	ISBN-13:	9781932279986

The first-ever collection of personal essays on fatherhood from the perspective of a divorced dad. Buy your copy! Amazon "The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad"  "The 40-Year-Old Version: Humoirs of a Divorced Dad" encourages strong fatherhood through funny and personal essays that examine how divorce reinvents relationships with kids and one's own sense of Dadhood. The 40 short "humoirs" -- heroic, hysterical, and heartbreaking reflections on being a part-time Dad in a full-time life -- make a meaningful read for any parent, particularly the millions who've gone through divorce with their senses of humor intact. "The 40-Year-Old Version" was officially released in June 2009 by Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing. Joel's essays on parenting and other spontaneous phenomena have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Star Ledger, New  Jersey Monthly, Babble.com, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Huffington Post, and regional parenting magazines  throughout the U.S. and Canada. Joel is also a featured blogger for The Star Ledger/NJ.com's popular  "Parental Guidance" blog.

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"Brilliant and engaging"
"As difficult as divorce can be, Joel Schwartzberg brings humor and realism to this otherwise dismal freefall experience. The author's writing is brilliant and engaging as he reveals 40 separate short adventures.....many of which await the newly divorced dad. A
delightful read."

---David Knox, Ph.D., author of "The Divorced Dad's Survival Book"

"Hard-earned guidance for divorced dads"
"A captivating, humorous, insightful book offering wise, hard-earned guidance for divorced dads, this is the perfect gift for men who are co-parenting with their ex-wives."

---Dr. Linda Nielsen, President of the American Coalition for Fathers and Children

"Smart and heartfelt"
"'The 40-Year-Old Version' is not only clever, but smart and heartfelt."

--- Robert Wilder, author of "Daddy Needs a Drink" and "Tales from the Teacher's Lounge"