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Physical Description:xiii, 301 pages ; 24 cm print
Edition:First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Publisher:New York : Gallery Books, 2019.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: the stay-at-work mom -- Guilt trip -- Rules of estrangement -- No more monsters -- Stain -- Year of the turtle -- Happy New Year -- Out of the basement, into the fire -- Kids in the orange shirts -- Little royalty -- Typhoid Mary of Playa Blanca -- Water is for writers -- It's not brain surgery -- Are you there, God ... ? It's me, Jeff's sister -- Tim Allen tried to kill me -- Love bracelet -- I've got this -- Epilogue: one flying leap.
Summary, etc.:
In this blunt and side-splittingly funny book of essays, Liz Astrof embraces the realities of motherhood (and womanhood) that no one ever talks about: like needing to hide from your kids in your closet, your car, or a yoga class on the other side of town, letting them eat candy for dinner because you just can't deal, to the sheer terror of failing them or at the very least losing them in a mall. And sometimes, many times, wondering if the whole parenting thing wasn't for you.
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