Of
Particular Interest
Mothers Who Think Read
At Dutton's
Sasha Stone
Mirror contributing writer
"How can
you even try to capture what it means to be a mother, both in the most
daily and ordinary ways, and in the deepest parts of yourself?" -
Anne Lamott
On Thursday, July 29, Camille Peri and Kate Moses,
editors of the popular collection of essays, Mothers Who Think,
join contributors Karen Grigsby Bates, Celeste Fremon, Mona Gable and
Susan Straight for a signing and discussion celebrating the
intellectual and humorous side of the hardest job in the world.
The book of essays, according to editors of the new
volume Peri and Moses, "is intended to be an antidote to the
saccharine, oversimplified literature of motherhood. Motherhood is the
most essential relationship to the continuity of life - and the wiping
of snotty noses."
These mothers who think cover a wide variety of
topics, from vibrators, in an essay aptly entitled, "Stop the
World, I Want to Get Off," to a daughter going off to college, to
the guilt and shame of a single, working mom who doesn't have time for
homemade muffins, to a lesbian couple trying to adopt a child with an
attachment disorder.
These "mothers who think" have put together
a collection of writing that is equal to a book of short stories.
There is a kind of poetry to this honest, frank examination of what it
means to be a mother, in every sense of the word, in this complicated
modern age.
Come join the fun at Dutton's Brentwood Books, 7 p.m.
(310)476-6263.
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