WILLIAMSBURG RATS: A Manny's Tour of Duty
Book Details
Author(s)Gregory R. Wilson
ISBN / ASINB00VKTEEZW
ISBN-13978B00VKTEEZ2
Sales Rank777,758
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
(Cover design by Patrick Quill)
Williamsburg Rats: A Manny’s Tour of Duty is the story of one man who, after a decade of living in a drunken fog and accomplishing exactly nothing while lost in a sea of trust-fund hipsters and career teenagers in the too-hip neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, finds himself agreeing to watch a friend's newborn son for a couple of weeks as a male nanny despite having no experience with children. A couple of weeks turns into three years of the kid, Chuck, and "Rats", as Chuck calls him, trying to navigate the absurdly competitive frontlines of parenting in Williamsburg, banded together with a combination of “it’s us against the world!†and “what the hell are we doing?†They are an odd couple, they are fish out of water, but they go through it all the only way they know how: together.
As they grow closer every day, being with Chuck reminds our protagonist that he wasn’t always a loser and doesn’t have to be one anymore. He also knows the day is coming when Chuck will be old enough to see that “Rats†isn’t quite the man he looked up to as a baby, and so he begins to try to better himself. He brutally fails with each attempt, but being with Chuck makes him determined to at least keep trying. Finally, upon wondering if he’s grown as much as Chuck has during their time together, he realizes that what can most change his life was with him the whole time.
Williamsburg Rats: A Manny’s Tour of Duty is the story of one man who, after a decade of living in a drunken fog and accomplishing exactly nothing while lost in a sea of trust-fund hipsters and career teenagers in the too-hip neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, finds himself agreeing to watch a friend's newborn son for a couple of weeks as a male nanny despite having no experience with children. A couple of weeks turns into three years of the kid, Chuck, and "Rats", as Chuck calls him, trying to navigate the absurdly competitive frontlines of parenting in Williamsburg, banded together with a combination of “it’s us against the world!†and “what the hell are we doing?†They are an odd couple, they are fish out of water, but they go through it all the only way they know how: together.
As they grow closer every day, being with Chuck reminds our protagonist that he wasn’t always a loser and doesn’t have to be one anymore. He also knows the day is coming when Chuck will be old enough to see that “Rats†isn’t quite the man he looked up to as a baby, and so he begins to try to better himself. He brutally fails with each attempt, but being with Chuck makes him determined to at least keep trying. Finally, upon wondering if he’s grown as much as Chuck has during their time together, he realizes that what can most change his life was with him the whole time.
