You know how hard it is to get good advice if you’ve ever faced an indifferent life guard when you complained of an octopus in the public pool; if you’ve ever accidentally sprayed your face with gold paint and were afraid of being mistaken for a false idol; or if your husband failed to notice that you’d replaced yourself with a manikin. These and other common problems are addressed in Dear Babalu: Letters to an Advice Columnist by Peter J. Manos, illustrated by Toby Liebowitz.