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Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom
Simon and Schuster
April 2003
224 pages
ISBN: 0743225430
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Life's Work is the story of one woman's search for balance
-- and the realization that it can't be found. It is the
story of modern motherhood, where true happiness is often
reached when you finally give up and give in. A few years
ago, while trying to make sense of her own hectic world,
award-winning journalist Lisa Belkin was asked to write a
very personal column for The New York Times. She called it
"Life's Work" because it was about the intersection -- or,
more accurately, the collision -- of life and work. Since
then she's been inundated with stories of other people
trying to catch their "balance": the CEO father-to-be who
restructured his entire company so he would have time to see
his baby, the divorced mom who thought she might have to
give away the family iguana because the store that sold live
food closed before she got home from work. But after
hundreds of columns and thousands of reader e-mails, Belkin
has yet to hear from a single person who has everything
neatly under control. Finally, while trying to confer with
her editor from a cell phone in her pediatrician's office,
she reached an epiphany: No one can do it because it can't
be done.
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