Against the norm? Child-free writers explain themselves
Non-fiction: Selfish, Shallow and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. Edited by Meghan Daum. Picador, €23.90.
‘All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Tolstoy’s famous opener for Anna Karenina is appropriated by the American editor Meghan Daum for her collection of essays by writers who don’t have children. “People who want children are all alike,” she writes. “People who don’t want children don’t want them in their own ways.”
So it proves in the 16 ...
