The Mother Zone: Love, Sex, and Laundry in the Modern Family - Hardcover
"Motherhood is like Albania - you can't trust the brochures, you have to go there." This is what Marni Jackson discovered when her son was born nine years ago. An acclaimed writer and journalist accustomed to reporting on her adventures in exotic locales, she set about exploring what she calls "The Mother Zone" - a rich and secretive territory that was, until now, unmapped.
Like every mother before and since, she learned that the experience of having children - not just the fatigue and the relentless demands, but surprising new dimensions of fear and love - bears no resemblance to what the child-rearing books describe, or to what other parents report. Even mothers forget; a kind of amnesia settles around those early years with small children. No one seemed to be telling the truth about motherhood, and those lost in the throes of it were all too busy to talk.
Marni Jackson has written a breathtakingly honest book that challenges every preconception and popular myth about motherhood. Wonderfully frank, intensely personal, excruciatingly funny, and profoundly moving, The Mother Zone is a travelogue through the mother years in which nothing escapes the reporter's scrutiny, no subject is taboo, and feminism is taken into the future.
Like every mother before and since, she learned that the experience of having children - not just the fatigue and the relentless demands, but surprising new dimensions of fear and love - bears no resemblance to what the child-rearing books describe, or to what other parents report. Even mothers forget; a kind of amnesia settles around those early years with small children. No one seemed to be telling the truth about motherhood, and those lost in the throes of it were all too busy to talk.
Marni Jackson has written a breathtakingly honest book that challenges every preconception and popular myth about motherhood. Wonderfully frank, intensely personal, excruciatingly funny, and profoundly moving, The Mother Zone is a travelogue through the mother years in which nothing escapes the reporter's scrutiny, no subject is taboo, and feminism is taken into the future.
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“[A]n exuberant, generous-hearted book about the experience of motherhood and the impact of that experience on her life and work ... The writing is intelligent, reflective and touchingly brave...Jackson possesses a novelist’s eye and ear.” — Carol Shields, The Globe and Mail
“An intimate look at an evolving relationship and a startlingly honest self-portrait of an intelligent woman growing older and wiser....Jackson makes a major contribution towards restoring the dignity that mothering children deserves.” — Maclean’s
“A witty and honest account of the strange isolation, the mingled joys and madness of motherhood...funny, tough and relentless, pushing each thought as far as she can bear.” — The Toronto Star
"It is hard to find anything that conveys the complex emotional truth about being a mother — the rage, the tenderness, the loss of self, the paralyzing fear, the numbing drudgery... The exception may be... The Mother Zone... This book, with its humour, depth and compassion, could be a long-overdue manifesto for mothers, the beginning of an undeclared revolution." — The Ottawa Citizen
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“An intimate look at an evolving relationship and a startlingly honest self-portrait of an intelligent woman growing older and wiser....Jackson makes a major contribution towards restoring the dignity that mothering children deserves.” — Maclean’s
“A witty and honest account of the strange isolation, the mingled joys and madness of motherhood...funny, tough and relentless, pushing each thought as far as she can bear.” — The Toronto Star
"It is hard to find anything that conveys the complex emotional truth about being a mother — the rage, the tenderness, the loss of self, the paralyzing fear, the numbing drudgery... The exception may be... The Mother Zone... This book, with its humour, depth and compassion, could be a long-overdue manifesto for mothers, the beginning of an undeclared revolution." — The Ottawa Citizen
Despite the number of parenting books flooding the marketplace, Marni Jackson discovered she wasn?t prepared when she became a mother at the age of thirty-seven. Nights without sleep, steeped in equal parts love, anxiety and bodily fluids, combined with the most intense tenderness warring against a sea-change of self forced her to ask the question: why didn?t anybody tell me it would be like this?
A national bestseller when it was first published, The Mother Zone remains fresh and relevant today, as Jackson gives us a touching and excruciatingly funny companion to help anyone survive the terra incognita of modern motherhood.
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A national bestseller when it was first published, The Mother Zone remains fresh and relevant today, as Jackson gives us a touching and excruciatingly funny companion to help anyone survive the terra incognita of modern motherhood.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0805017097
- ISBN 13 9780805017090
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages277
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