Bank Square Books presents a book signing with Amanda Parrish Morgan for the book Stroller .
About the Book
Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although its association with wealth dates back to the invention of the first pram in the 1700s, in recent decades, four-figure strollers have become not just status symbols but cultural identifiers.
There are sleek jogging strollers for serious athletes, impossibly compact strollers for parents determined to travel internationally with pre-ambulatory children, and those featuring a ride-on kick board or second, less "babyish" seat, designed with older siblings in mind. Despite the many models available, we are all familiar with the image of a harried mother struggling to use a stroller of any kind in a public space that does not accommodate it. There are anti-stroller evangelists, fervently preaching the gospel of baby wearing and attachment parenting. All of these attitudes, seemingly about an object, are also revealing of how we believe parents and children ought to move through the world.
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
About the Author
Some of Amanda Parrish Morgan's essays have appeared in the 2021 Connecticut Literary Anthology, Guernica, The Rumpus, The Millions, n+1, Electric Literature, Carve, The American Scholar and the Ploughshares Blog. I’ve also written some pieces about long-distance running and teaching (my other fascinations) for JSTOR Daily, The Washington Post, Real Simple, Women’s Running and ESPNW.
Amanda's first book, STROLLER, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury’s Object Lesson series in 2022!
Amanda lives in Connecticut with my husband and two kids where I teach at Fairfield University and the Westport Writers’ Workshop.
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.