Publication

2021 - World International Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781912987184
  • ISBN-10191298718X
  • Better World Books9781912987184
  • Open LibraryOL34696104M

Classifications

  • LCCPQ6172.A34

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. Humor, 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.--Amazon.com.

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  • World's Best MotherWorld International Publishing2021

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