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Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers.Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mother showcases the experiences of ordinary people of all racial, gender, and age backgrounds, from every corner of the country. This collection of essays celebrates and validates what it means to be a mother today, with honesty and candor that is arrestingly stimulating and refreshing. The stories are raw, honest, poignant, and sometimes raunchy, ranging from adoption, assimilation to emptying nests; first-time motherhood, foster-parenting, to infertility; single-parenting, LGBTQ parenting, to special-needs parenting; step-mothering; never mothering, to surrogacy; and mothering through illness to mothering through unsolicited advice.
About the Author
Listen To Your Mother (LTYM) Founder and National Director, Ann Imig is an award-winning humorist and 2016 Iris Awards winner named "Game Changer" of the year for her work with LTYM. Ann's writing has appeared on numerous websites including The Washington Post, Huffington Post, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and College Humor.com. Her blog, annsrants.com, has been recognized as a Babble Top 100 Mom Blog, and she was named their funniest Top Twitter Mom in 2011. BlogHer recognized Ann as one of 12 "Voice of The Year" winners in 2013. SheKnows called her one of their Top 5 Funniest Mom Blogs, and her children call her The Most Annoying Boss of Everything. Ann has been featured on ABC News.com, NBC Nightly News, and has had roles in the acclaimed web series Battleground and The Louise Log. Ann lives with her family in Madison, Wisconsin. Find out more at annimig.com
