Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words

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An emotionally honest, arresting, and funny collection of essays about motherhood and adulthood... “Being a mother is a gift.” Where’s my receipt? Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It’s a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure (“PRO: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. CON: They’re really crappy.”) With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions around parenthood in artful and earnest ways, highlighting this time in the middle—midlife, the middle years of childhood, how women are stuck in the middle of so much. It’s a place of elation, exhaustion, and time whipping past at warp speed. Finally, it’s a quiet space to consider the girl you were, the mother you are, and the woman you are always becoming.   Dont Want to Be Dying in Order to Tell You These .............. Job Description for the Dumbest Job Ever .............. The Super Bowl of Interruptions .............. Am the One Woman Who Has It .............. Dear StayatHome Moms and Working Moms .............. Just What I Wanted a Whole TwentyFour Hours .............. Tiny Losses .............. If You Love Your Grandparents Go Visit Them ..............