The Big Rumpus
Early motherhood in all its hilarious, confounding, gross glory.
My childhood was rat-free. Lice-free. A ’possum did get stuck in the fireplace once…
“The Big Rumpus is positively the best mothering memoir I’ve read by a straight-tawkin’, breast-feeding, xenophilic, world-traveling, Indiana-reared, New York City transplant. I stayed up past my bedtime reading it, no lie. The gal can write.”
—Chris Dodge, Utne
Sometimes when I’m jamming my children into their snowsuits or slathering them with sunscreen, I remind myself that I once trudged all the way to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro…
“Funny, surprisingly well-written chronicle of a young bohemian family living in New York City. Perfect for stay-at-home moms who believe in natural birth and granola.”
—Belinda Liscombe, Time
If I’d really wanted to eat a placenta, stir-fried with hot chiles, I should have married a different man…
“Her irreverent, sarcastic and occasionally scatological style (no accident, perhaps, that her husband, Greg Kotis co-wrote Urinetown) will remind you of a phone conversation with your best friend.”
—Susan Avery, New York Magazine
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