Amateur hour
Subtitle: motherhood in essays and swear words
By: Kimberly Harrington
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780062838742
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Motherhood; Anecdotes; Humor; Mothers
Description: "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, and 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."--Page [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: First.; title: I don't want to be dying in order to tell you these things -- -- Jobs.; title: Fuck. This. List. --; title: Job description for the dumbest job ever --; title: The Super Bowl of interruptions --; title: I am the one woman who has it all --; title: Undone --; title: Dear stay-at-home moms and working moms, you're both right -- -- Time-out.; title: Just what I wanted, a whole twenty-four hours of recognition once a year --; title: "If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy": revised and expanded -- -- Vows.; title: Tiny losses --; title: If you love your grandparents, go visit them --; title: Let's have the wedding later --; title: It's complicated -- -- Time-out.; title: Your cute wedding hashtags twenty years later --; title: Kids, it's time you know the truth--your mother is a real piece of work -- -- Showdowns.; title: Overshare --; title: Thank you for including me on this meal train but unfortunately I'm a horrible person --; title: Your participation trophies are bullshit --; title: September 17, 2010: the day I turned the car around --; title: The ghosts of Halloweens past -- -- Time-out. Radiohead song or accurate description of my parenting?; title: Are you sure there isn't something else I can do before the end of the school year? -- -- Schools.; title: The walls that define us --; title: Pro/con: caving to PTO bake sale pressure --; title: The punching season --; title: Please don't get murdered at school today --; title: I don't care if you go to college -- -- Time-out. -- What do yo think of my son's senior picture that was shot by Annie Leibovitz?; title: Anne-Marie Slaughter is my safety word -- -- Bodies.; title: Who does that? --; title: If you can touch it --; title: As young as we'll ever be --; title: Hot-ass chicks --; title: Ashes to ashes -- -- Time-out.; title: Fifty-one things you should never say to a mother ever --; title: Is there a parenting expert on this plane? -- -- Freedoms.; title: Do you have faith in me? --; title: Thirteen with dudes --; title: Just because you can, doesn't mean you should -- -- Last.; title: You are all the joy --; title: When I die.