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In our mothers day there were good mothers, indifferent mothers, and occasionally, great mothers. Today we have only Bad Mothers If you work, youre neglectful if you stay home, youre smothering. If you discipline, youre buying them a spot on the shrinks couch if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs by seventh grade. Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or another as a bad mother Writing with remarkable candor, and dispensing much hilarious and helpful advice along the wayIs breast best What should you do when your daughter dresses up as a ho for HalloweenAyelet Waldman says its time for women to get over it and get on with it in this wry, unflinchingly honest, and always insightful memoir on modern motherhood.
About the Author
AYELET WALDMAN is the author of A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life, the novels Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, and Daughter's Keeper, as well as of the essay collection Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace and the Mommy-Track Mystery series. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons and of the forthcoming Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation. She was a Federal public defender and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley law school where she developed and taught a course on the legal implications of the War on Drugs. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, Michael Chabon, and their four children.
