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A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
Doubleday
May 2009
On Sale: May 5, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 0385527934
EAN: 9780385527934
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the House
and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and controversial
book that every woman will have an opinion about, written
by America’s most outrageous writer. In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful
mothers, and occasionally great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers. If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re
smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on
the shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be
into drugs by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you’re
spending their college fund; if you don’t, you’re risking
all sorts of allergies and illnesses. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one
time or another as “a bad mother”? Ayelet Waldman says it’s
time for women to get over it and get on with it, in a book
that is sure to spark the same level of controversy as her
now legendary “Modern Love” piece, in which she confessed
to loving her husband more than her children. Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive
parenting (Whose toddler can recite the planets in order
from the sun?), the relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother
police, balancing the work-family dynamic, and the bane of
every mother’s existence (homework, that is), Bad Mother
illuminates the anxieties that riddle motherhood today,
while providing women with the encouragement they need to
give themselves a break.
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