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Kids are told, “it’s for the best”—and one day, it may be. But right now, divorce is the worst. With honesty and humor, Anastasia Higginbotham beautifully conveys the challenge of staying whole when your entire world, and the people in it, split apart.
Four years after its initial release, Dottir Press is bringing Divorce Is the Worst back into print and into the hands of those adults doing the important work of processing life’s Ordinary Terrible Things with children. Exceptional in its child-centered portrayal, Divorce Is the Worst is an invaluable tool for families, therapeutic professionals, and divorce mediators struggling to address this common and complex experience.
"The illustrations deliver a substantial emotional impact.. But it’s Higginbotham’s directness and refusal to talk down to her audience that will make this book such an asset to families negotiating divorce."―Publishers Weekly
"While divorce books are plentiful, [Divorce Is the Worst] stands above the rest."―School Library Journal
"How can you not love a children's author who sees so clearly from her reader's point of view?”―Julie Bowen, actress, Modern Family
About the Author
Photo by Isabel del Rosal
Anastasia Higginbotham is the White Raven award-winning author and illustrator of Divorce Is the Worst, Death Is Stupid, Tell Me About Sex, Grandma, and Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness—all part of the Ordinary Terrible Things series. Her other books include What You Don’t Know: A Story of Liberated Childhood and the forthcoming You Ruined It. She lives in Brooklyn.
