
Amateur Hour
Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words
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An emotionally honest, arresting, and funny collection of essays about motherhood and adulthood....
"Being a mother is a gift."
Where’s my receipt?
Welcome to essayist Kimberly Harrington’s poetic and funny world of motherhood, womanhood, and humanhood, not necessarily in that order. It’s a place of loud parenting, fierce loving, too much social media, and occasional inner monologues where timeless debates are resolved such as Pro/Con: Caving to PTO Bake Sale Pressure (“Pro: Skim the crappiest brownies for myself. Con: They’re really crappy.”)
With accessibility and wit, she captures the emotions around parenthood in artful and earnest ways, highlighting this time in the middle - midlife, the middle years of childhood, how women are stuck in the middle of so much. It’s a place of elation, exhaustion, and time whipping past at warp speed. Finally, it’s a quiet space to consider the girl you were, the mother you are, and the woman you are always becoming.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-14-18
Hilarious, relatable, and a great plane listen
At a new mom, this was exactly what I needed to hear. Things that I could laugh along to, cry to, or just wonder how they will play out in my own life. The performance was enjoyable, and the words were memorable.
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- Cassandra
- 04-03-23
I’ve got my own swear words
This book was extremely rough to get through. On MANY occasions, I just wanted to stop listening. It was SO whiny and “whoa is me”. The author (who is CLEARLY Left politically) criticizes everything. The last 2 chapters of the book are the only thing worth listening to and the only thing I could really relate to. The rest of it was like nails on a chalkboard (not because of the speaker, but because of the actual content of the book). Save your credits/money/time, cause this book is not worth any of it.
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- Monika Harper
- 04-17-23
Not worth the time
As a new mom this book sounded like it would be relatable and hilarious. I could barely get through the first two chapters. The narrator was good, but the content was not. I'm disappointed I spent money on this book.
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