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Fresh Hell: Motherhood in Pieces
This book isn't about perfect moments with your infant. It doesn't dispense sensible advice or proscribe schedules to manage the lawless days and nights of early maternity. Instead, this literary think piece, an Eat, Pray Love for the smarter mommy crowd, seesaws from disaster to delight, horror to grim resignation, much like motherhood itself. An antigen to the anodyne, mother-knows-least tone of such cordially hated tomes as What to Expect in the First Year, Fresh Hell answers Dorothy Parker's question-- "What fresh hell is this?"--in exhaustive detail. Fifty-two spare meditations, one for each week of baby's first year, cover subjects from baby poop to more baby poop, breastfeeding and its relation to same, broken nights and endless days, and all the other low points of having a baby. Thankfully, the book's raw prose reminds frantic and time-strapped new moms that their brains are only temporarily on vacation. And its moments of poetry assure them that the madness they experience is intermittently divine.
Book Details
- Publisher: Demeter Press
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 2013
- Pages: 87
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
- EAN: 9781927335321
- Categories: • Women
About the Author
Carellin Brooks is the author of 100 Days of Rain, Wreck Beach, and Every Inch a Woman. She has edited two collections, on bad jobs and, with co-editor Brett Josef Grubisic, Canadian sex writing. She has two children.
Praise for this book
?With honesty and humour, Carellin Brooks pushes past the boundaries of what mothers are allowed to say and lays bare her darkest anxieties and doubts about mothering? ?Frances Greenslade, author of By the Secret Ladder: A Mothers Initiation