World's Best Mother

World's Best MotherCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781642860726 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2021 Publisher: World Editions Description: A thirty five year old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. Worlds Best Mother is a sublime journey through pregnancy, the mothering of small children, marriage, an affair which unfolds in a heady mix of anecdote,

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781642860726
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2021
Publisher: World Editions


Description:


A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book.

World’s Best Mother is a sublime journey — through pregnancy, the mothering of small children, marriage, an affair — which unfolds in a heady mix of anecdote, imagination, and social commentary.

Clever and insightful, the narrator examines the myth, but also the scam, of motherhood, openly dialoguing with voices of the past that in one way or another have fueled her condition as a woman: from the legendary hominid Lucy — 'the mother of humanity'— to Cinderella, passing through Plato, Mother Teresa, Darwin, Maupassant, and Simone de Beauvoir along the way. Humour, love, and horror converge in this lively auto-fictional battle between the intensity of child rearing and the writer trying to fight her way out.