Mom-o-rama: 2013

Books on Mothering that Really Helped

"A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother," by Rachel Cusk
"Inconsolable: How I threw my mental health out with the diapers," by Marrit Ingman
"Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It," by Andrea Buchanan
"Mothers who think: Tales of Real-Life Parenting," ed. by Camile Peri
"Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year," by Anne Lamott
"The Bitch in the House: 26 Women tell the truth about sex, solitude, work, motherhood and marriage," Ed. by Cathi Hanauer
"The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood," by Sharon Hays
"The Ghost in the House," by Tracy Thompson
"The Mask of Motherhood," by Susan Maushart
"The Mother Knot," by Jane Lazarre
"The Mother Trip: A Hip Mama's Guide to Staying Sane in the Chaos of Motherhood," by Ariel Gore
"The Playgroup," by Nina Barrett