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Room Temperature
A Literary Fiction Novella by Nicholson Baker
Subgenres:
- Parenthood,
- Domestic Fiction,
- Stream of Consciousness
This book is for you if you're into...
- Minute-by-minute deep dives into a parent's wandering mind
- Unexpected connections between everyday objects and big life questions
In a novel Nicholson Baker takes the reader on an intellectual odyssey over the course of the twenty minutes it takes a new father to give his baby daughter her bottle. Through inspired moments of mental flight, Mike's thoughts on his newfound parenthood lead him back to his own childhood and to reflections on the objects of his youth.
From glass peanut butter jars to French horns, from typography to courtship, Baker reveals some of the tenderest, most delicate interaction between husband and wife, adult and infant, in modern fiction.
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