"Barnicoat's memoir of early parenthood is funny, unflinching and a welcome corrective to the ceaseless pressures new mums face from social media." -- The Guardian

"Loving, honest, and SO funny, Becky Barnicoat depicts the long nights and short years of baby-raising with warmth and brilliance. Making visual poetry out of the highs and lows of parenting's twin modes, 'love and fury, ' CRY WHEN THE BABY CRIES is the perfect gift for parents overwhelmed by cluster feeding, cabin fever, and the exhausting, exhilarating 'it' of "having it all." -- Ada Calhoun, New York Times bestselling author of WHY WE CAN'T SLEEP

"New Yorker cartoonist Barnicoat wrings hard-earned laughs from her experiences with motherhood in her wry graphic novel debut.... Her loose ink-washed art suggests the humanistic style of Roz Chast, complete with charmingly drawn babies and hilariously frazzled self-portraits.... Parents will find much to identify with, and expectant parents would do well to heed Barnicoat's warnings." --Publishers Weekly

"By turns bloody, sweet, bleak, and joyful ... Her account is intimate and granular, recounting sleep-deprived feelings so fleeting it's almost astonishing she remembered them at all. . . . It is also very, very funny." --The New Statesman