GROWING GIRLS(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and
delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life
on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most
deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most
terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all….

　　A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report
from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with
a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a
ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the
wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will
instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and
laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatest–and most
impossible–of all life’s journeys: motherhood.

　　What is it, she muses, that’s so exhausting about being a mom?
You’d think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to
dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of “attack” roosters,
feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on
the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as
any mother knows, you’d be wrong.

　　From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she
raises two children adopted from China to taking her daughters to
the mall for their first manicures, Jeanne Marie captures those
magic moments that make motherhood the most important and rewarding
job in the world–even if it’s never been done right. For, as she
concludes in one of her three a.m. worry sessions, feeling like a
bad mother is the only way to know you’re doing your job.

　　Whether confronting Sasha’s language delay, reflecting on
Anna’s devotion to a creepy backwards-running chicken, feeling
outclassed by the fabulous homeroom moms, or describing the rich,
secret language each family shares, these candid observations from
the front lines of parenthood are filled with love and laughter–and
radiant with the tough, tender, and timeless wisdom only raising
kids can teach us.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

　　Jeannne Marie Laskas is a columnist for The Washington Post
Magazine, a GQ correspondent, and the author of Fifty Acres and a
Poodle and the award-winning The Exact Same Moon. A professor in
the creative writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, she
also writes the “My Life as a Mom” column for Ladies Home Journal.
She lives with her husband and two children at Sweetwater Farm in
Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania.

BAD MOTHER
BIRTHDAY CHICKEN
UP FOR GRABS
MEETING THE GHOST-MOTHER
A COLD FRONT
SPEECHLESS
FASHION STATEMENT
A STUPID FEUD
FEVER ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT
APRAXIA
FOSSIL
HOLY MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
A DAY AT THE MALL
NIGHTS AT THE OPERA
ALL PUMPED UP
KILLING A SHEEP
LOVE, KINDERGARTEN STYLE
HOLY DAYS OF OBLIGATION
THE YOUNG FOLKS’ HOME
THE FOGGIEST NOTION
NOTHING SURPRISES ME ANYMORE