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Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman

Aug 31, 2020

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The New Self-Help

Play Is Dangerous. It’s Also Essential.

But the idea that we — and our children — are never really ‘safe’ is hard to live with

Book jacket cover for Savage Park by Amy Fusselman

This story is part of The New Self-Help: 21 Books for a Better You in the 21st Century.

Play is not something that we do; it is something that we are. It is the state of…

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Author of The Pharmacist’s Mate, 8, Savage Park. Forthcoming in July ‘18: Idiophone, Coffee House Press

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