num_pages: 336
description: When California-born war correspondent Saffron Roch discovers that she€™s pregnant ( knocked-up, newly jobless, and single at thirty-eight), she decides to leave Sierra Leone and surgeon Oscar DeVries, the baby€™s cheating father who, despite his huge ego and surprisingly small member, had captured her heart.So Saffron turns in her backstage pass to the violent dissolution of third-world countries and returns home to Los Angeles, where she is about to inherit a beach property worth a fortune. There she throws herself into motherhood, joining a politically correct breast-feeding support group at the Pump Station. In full-blown culture shock, missing Africa, Saffron comes face to face with a group of unlikely women friends and a roomful of Scud nipples that, on looks alone, could bring any rogue nation to its knees. Making It Up As I Go Along is a dazzling debut novel that questions the very meaning of motherhood, home, and family, while offering an un
language: English
title: Making It Up As I Go Along
titlecomplete: Making It Up As I Go Along
genres: Fiction, Chick Lit
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Three Rivers Press