If it's not one thing, it's your mother
By: Julia Sweeney
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781408830635
Subjects: Actresses; Mothers and daughters; Adoptive parents; Biography
Description: Julia Sweeney was nearing forty and quite famous when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. She had a flourishing career as a comedienne and performer ample friends and admirers but what she didn't have was a child and after a string of non committal boyfriends she decided to adopt alone.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Week one: unto me a child is given; title: If it's not one thing, it's your mother; title: Just tinking; title: Channeling food; title: China sweeney; title: Strong and beautiful; title: Letters from camp; title: Week two: independence; title: Three Chinese nannies; title: Arden; title: Big strollers are bad; title: Three boyfriends and reflections on a high school crush; title: The birds and the bees; title: A fan letter; title: Sphexy; title: Week three: death; title: The decline and fall of practically everybody; title: Starter gods; title: Pussy; title: Baby on board; title: The color of skin; title: Phone bill; title: Week four: dependene; title: My nemesis; title: A proposal at Starbucks; title: An education; title: Hinky dink is sinking; title: Tomorrow they arrive.