Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman
Bad Mother, Ayelet Waldman
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Bad Mother
A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Author: Ayelet Waldman

Narrator: Mia Barron

Unabridged: 6 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 06/12/2009


Synopsis

Best-selling author Ayelet Waldman delivers a humorous, encouraging look at the nearly impossible-and often thankless!-job of mothering. "This is not only a wonderfully written book, but I think it may also be a book of great salvation for many women." -Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author

About Ayelet Waldman

Ayelet Waldman is the author of the memoir, A Really Good Day, as well as of novels including Love and Treasure, Red Hook Road, and Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. She is the editor of Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons, and with Michael Chabon, of Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation and Fight of the Century.


Reviews

Goodreads review by christa on May 27, 2009

According to an informal Gawker poll, Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon have received the second-most votes for literary power couple that make Gawker readers wish they had never learned to read. As of today, they are quite a few percentage points behind Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss, but t......more

Goodreads review by K on August 03, 2010

Reading this book took me back to my recent book club meeting. In a tangential conversation, my book club friends and I discussed the self-doubt we sometimes heard from parents our age about their decision not to use corporal punishment with their children. “It’s not the spanking itself,” one friend......more

Goodreads review by Shelah on October 30, 2009

I seriously doubt that any woman who gives birth to a baby goes into it aspiring to be a bad mother. But within days, hours, and honestly probably before the baby is even born, we all have moments where we're sure we're not going to be as good at this motherhood thing as we want to be. One of my fir......more

Goodreads review by Amy on July 26, 2010

Ayelet Waldman is a self-confessed bad mother, the only problem being that it only takes a few pages of reading to decide that she's wrong. I felt like I was a bad mother myself as I devoured this book after coming home from the library today, leaving my six children to their own devices. The author......more