num_pages: 260
description: The author of the best-selling novel Up the Sandbox offers a critical account of the feminist stance on marriage and motherhood, arguing for renewed support for the needs of working women trying to bring up children. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
language: English
title: Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
titlecomplete: Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern World
genres: Feminism, Memoir, Nonfiction, Parenting
ratings_count: 66
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt