No More Saturday Nights is in many ways a realistic and serious treatment of the problems facing a young adult male who decides to raise a baby. Although Mason is an almost ideally placid child and although the relationship between Tim and his father grows warm too quickly to be wholly believable, Klein does show Tim coping with sleepless nights, dirty diapers, Mason's illnesses, finding child care and sitters, and trying to maintain a B average so that he can keep his scholarship while caring for Mason. Tim tries to do all these things with minimal help from anyone else, including his father and the administration at Columbia. In fact, he does not even tell the university authorities about Mason until the dean of students calls him into his office to discuss his midterm grades.

Through most of the book, Tim's typical answer when anyone offers to help...