American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie - Hardcover

Blakely, Mary Kay

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9781565120525: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1565120523 ISBN 13: 9781565120525

Publisher: Atlantic Books, 1994

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A lively memoir of more than twenty years of raising children, from the perspective of a divorced, working mother, questions the authority of parenting "experts" and offers a personal narrative about the issues confronting mothers in the 1990s. Tour.

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If you have a child, if you expect ever to have a child...American Mom may save your life. The best account of motherhood I ever read--honest, loving, funny--it gently holds every 'family value' up to the light. Miss it at your peril! --Carolyn G. Heilbrun

"I think I have read every word Mary Kay Blakely has ever written--even when I absolutely did not have time to do it. She is too powerful a storyteller to resist. American Mom is no exception. If you can't find your life in hers, you've been living abroad." --Phyllis Theroux

"From small town to big city, from traditional marriage to self-discovery, from single motherhood to creative worker, from illness to rebirth--all these are personal journeys Blakely has taken and written about with insight, humor, and a larger understanding that light the path around her." --Gloria Steinem

"Mary Kay Blakely's writing is warm, witty, and loving--and celebratory of real modern family life." --Susan Faludi

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A memoir of more than twenty years of raising children, from the perspective of a divorced, working mother, questions the authority of parenting "experts" and offers a personal narrative about the issues confronting mothers in the 1990s.

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