Parenting is just like childhood: you’re back on the playground, at the mercy of everyone.

Ralph Martin is a writer, an ex-New Yorker and present Berliner, since 2003. PAPANOIA (Piper Verlag), appeared on bookshelves in Deutschland on October 7. (Go to Amazon link here.)
Sueddeutsche Zeitung excerpt (pdf) - here
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung review here
EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN, his first book, is available from Dumont Verlag.