Peggy Nolan began photographing her children in South Florida, where she raised seven of them largely on her own. The title of her book, Juggling Is Easy, carries a dry irony that the pictures themselves sustain: the daily arithmetic of feeding, ferrying, settling, and consoling a large household, rendered without complaint or sentimentality. The setting is domestic and ordinary—kitchens, yards, bedrooms, cars—but the cumulative weight of the sequence gives those spaces a novelistic density.

The book’s method is consistent and restrained. The plates are printed in duotone, a choice that suppresses the distractions of color and keeps attention on gesture, posture, and the light falling through windows and doorways. Children appear at play, in conflict, in repose, often caught mid-motion or absorbed in private games. Because Nolan is both participant and observer, the photographs move between intimacy and distance without settling into either. Rebecca Bengal’s essay accompanies the images, providing a writer’s perspective on the family situation rather than a photographer’s technical commentary.

TBW Books issued this second edition in 2023 as a softcover with dust jacket: 96 pages and 69 duotone plates at 216 by 286 millimeters. The format is substantial enough for the pictures to hold the page individually, while the sequencing rewards sustained reading across spreads. The book has drawn attention from general-interest and photography press, including Vogue, New York Magazine, The Guardian, Juxtapoz, Lenscratch, and True Photo Journal.

For collectors of documentary and family photography, the interest lies in how the work handles its subject. Nolan does not treat the household as a site of spectacle, and she does not turn her children into symbols. The pictures accumulate as evidence of a particular life, photographed from inside it, and the book’s design supports that accumulation rather than interrupting it. This second edition makes the sequence available again in a considered physical form.