BAD MOTHER(ISBN=) 英文原版

Praise for BAD MOTHER

“Many find Waldman’s honesty hard to take. For some
of us it’s hard to live without.” –People, 3 1/2 stars

“Absorbing reading… takes brave risks… What really makes
Waldman’s book interesting, as voices on motherhood go, is Waldman
herself–the intensity of her positions and the way she thinks.”
–New York Times Book Review

“Waldman’s book is nothing short of a revelation.” –The
Oregonian

“Waldman admits that she’s an oversharer-which happens to be a
great trait for a memoirist. Her essays about motherhood are
hilarious, heartbreaking, and edgy.” –Newsweek

“Nuanced and thoughtful… Waldman is often an astute commentator
on contemporary parenting.” –Boston Globe

“Waldman hates to hold back, and that trait serves her
well in Bad Mother.” –The Washington Post

“Bound to stimulate ferocious discussion.” –San
Francisco Chronicle

“Waldman is a courageous and talented writer. Her
greatest accomplishment in this book is to take her
experience–some of our worst fears–and make it something we can
understand…. Isn’t that a mother’s real job?” –Susan Cheever,
The Daily Beast

“Fascinating…. If she’s honest, every mother will see
herself reflected in the pages of this book.” –The Anniston
Star

“Waldman writes in these well-fashioned essays how a mother’s best
intentions frequently go awry…. [her] frank revelations are
chatty and sure to delight.” –Publishers Weekly

“This is not only a wonderfully written book, but I think it may
also be a book of great salvation for many women. Most of the
mothers I know (the honest ones, the tired ones, the confused ones)
will see themselves reflected in these wise pages, and will find
long-overdue comfort here.”
–Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“I have often felt that it is impossible to be a mother
without a profound, even corrosive, sense of failure, or at least
that’s how I feel about myself.  To find a book that shares
that anxiety, and an author who dissects this insecurity and
self-doubt with wit, honesty and proper, enquiring intelligence, is
(as a reader) like being grossly dehydrated and being presented
with a vat of water to drink…. I am sad to have finished it,
and feel I want to be in the company of her frank intelligence
forever.”
–Nigella Lawson

“Ayelet Waldman writes cleanly and thoughtfully about motherhood as
both an experience and a spectator sport.  Bad Mother
is blunt, wry, pre*ive and pleasurable.”
–Meg Wolitzer, author of The Ten-Year Nap

“Ayelet Waldman’s sane perspective on the challenges of motherhood
comes as a relief. I relished her graceful language, self-mocking
humor, her clear, if sometimes painful, insight.  And I admire
her–deeply– for the bracing  honesty that redeems it
all.”
–Peggy Orenstein, author of Waiting for Daisy

“Ayelet Waldman writes about motherhood the way women
live it: Not only as parents, but also as wives, professionals, and
most touchingly, former children. Written with humor, insight,
generosity, and unflinching honesty, Bad Mother is for
anyone who has — or has been — a child.”
–Pamela Paul, author of Parenting, Inc. and The Starter
Marriage

In the tradition of recent hits like The Bitch in the
House and Perfect Madness comes a hilarious and
controversial book that every woman will have an opinion about,
written by America’s most outrageous writer.

In our mothers’ day there were good mothers, neglectful mothers,
and occasionally great mothers.
 
Today we have only Bad Mothers.
 
If you work, you’re neglectful; if you stay home, you’re
smothering. If you discipline, you’re buying them a spot on the
shrink’s couch; if you let them run wild, they will be into drugs
by seventh grade. If you buy organic, you’re spending their college
fund; if you don’t, you’re risking all sorts of allergies and
illnesses.
 
Is it any wonder so many women refer to themselves at one time or
another as “a bad mother”? Ayelet Waldman says it’s time for women
to get over it and get on with it, in a book that is sure to spark
the same level of controversy as her now legendary “Modern Love”
piece, in which she confessed to loving her husband more than her
children.

Covering topics as diverse as the hysteria of competitive parenting
(Whose toddler can recite the planets in order from the sun?), the
relentless pursuits of the Bad Mother police, balancing the
work-family dynamic, and the bane of every mother’s existence
(homework, that is), Bad Mother illuminates the anxieties
that riddle motherhood today, while providing women with the
encouragement they need to give themselves a break.

AYELET WALDMAN is the author of Daughter’s Keeper and
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Her writing has appeared
in the New York Times, Salon, New York,
Elle, Vogue, and other publications. She and her
husband, the novelist Michael Chabon, live in Berkeley, California,
with their four children.