The Mother Zone: Love, Sex, and Laundry in the Modern Family - Softcover
Explores the dark side of motherhood--the fatigue, the mood swings, and the conflicting emotions--offering an intimate look at the trials and tribulations of being a mother in the modern age
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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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- PublisherOwlet
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 080503207X
- ISBN 13 9780805032079
- BindingPaperback
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The Mother Zone: Love, Sex, and Laundry in the Modern Family
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Hnery Holt/ Owl, New York
(1992)
ISBN 10: 080503207X
ISBN 13: 9780805032079
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Russell Gordon cover (illustrator). 1st Edition thus. Unread trade paperback, photo beige/black covers, a tiny bit of handling. No names, clean text. Solid. 20762 shelf 277 p. Book. Seller Inventory # 053764
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