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And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion
Voice
August 2009
On Sale: August 18, 2009
224 pages
ISBN: 1401340814
EAN: 9781401340810
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
From Deborah Copaken Kogan, the acclaimed author of the
national bestseller Shutterbabe, comes this edgy,
insightful, and sidesplitting memoir about surviving in the
trenches of modern parenting. Kogan writes situation comedy in the style of David Sedaris
and Spalding Gray with a dash of Erma-Bombeck-on-a-Vespa:
wry, acutely observed, and often hilarious true tales, in
which the narrator is as culpable as any character. In these
eleven linked pieces, Kogan and her husband are almost
always broke while working full-time and raising three
children in New York City, one of the most expensive and
competitive cities in the world. In one episode, exhausted from a particularly difficult
childbirth, Kogan finds herself sharing a hospital room with
a foul-mouthed teen mother and her partying posse. In
another, Kogan manages to crawl her way to her own emergency
appendectomy, which inconveniently strikes the same week her
infant's babysitter is away on vacation, her adolescents are
off from school, her New York Times editor needs his edit,
and the whole family catches the flu. And in the book's
capper essay, she drives twelve hours, solo, with a
screaming toddler in a rent-a-car in a futile effort to
catch a glimpse of her eldest child in his summer camp play. Yes, Shutterbabe is all grown up and slightly worse for the
wear, but her clear-eyed vision while under fire has
remained intact: You've never read funnier war stories.
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