Dispatches from modern motherhood by a reluctant suburbanite
Send Me Into The Woods Alone is an honest, heartfelt, and often
hilarious collection of essays on the joys, struggles, and complexities
of motherhood.
These essays touch on the major milestones of raising children, from
giving birth (and having approximately a million hands in your vagina)
and taking your beautiful newborn home (and feeling like you've stolen
your baby from the hospital), to lying to kids about the Tooth Fairy and
mastering the subtle art of beating children at board games. Plus the
pitfalls of online culture and the #winemom phenomenon, and the
unattainable expectations placed on mothers today.
Written from the perspective of an always tired, often anxious, and
reluctant suburbanite who is doing her damn best, these essays
articulate one woman's experience in order to help mothers of all kinds
process the wildly variable, deeply different ways in which being a mom
changes our lives.
Reading Pepler's essays is like hanging out with your best
mom-friend--the one who puts it all out there, makes you feel normal and
has you laughing so hard you pee a bit."--Kim Shiffman,
editor-in-chief, Today's Parent
"Easily the most validating book you'll read this year."--Ann Douglas,
author of Happy Parents, Happy Kids and The Mother of All Pregnancy
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