The Mother Zone
Love, Sex, and Laundry in the Modern Family
Book - 1992
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. From the Hardcover edition.
Publisher:
Toronto : Macfarlane Walter & Ross, c1992.
ISBN:
9780921912255
0921912250
0921912250
Characteristics:
277 pages


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Add a CommentI thought this would be a humourous take on motherhood, but it is a serious account of the author's life, starting with her courtship with her partner and ending when her son is 8 years old. There is a lack of flow. Some chapters are just philosophical thought. Mothers of children with asthma will relate to the final chapters, which are the best part of the book.