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When Did I Get Like This?: The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer & Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be

by Amy Wilson

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A comic memoir of motherhood’s less polished moments

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    Praise from Gretchen Rubin

    Gretchen Rubin praises the memoir as hilarious and tender, noting its recognizable humor and thoughtful depictio...

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A comic memoir of motherhood’s less polished moments

Amy Wilson turns the gap between pre-parenthood expectations and everyday family life into a memoir centered on the identities mothers can unexpectedly assume: the screamer, the worrier, and the buyer of dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets. Drawing on her perspective as a modern woman, wife, and mother, the book gathers the small-scale pressures, contradictions, and recognitions of parenting into a humor-forward portrait of domestic life. Its subject is not an idealized version of motherhood, but the self-awareness that comes with noticing how far one’s real routines have drifted from one’s earlier promises.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults seeking humorous memoirs about parenting and family life
  • Parents interested in candid accounts of everyday motherhood
  • Fans of one-woman-show comedy rooted in domestic experience

Themes

MotherhoodParenting expectationsFamily lifeMarriageEveryday humor

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Book overview

"Amy Wilson's hilarious, tender memoir...had me laughing out loud with recognition. She captures the small moments of motherhood in a way that is both funny and thought-provoking."
--Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

 

 

From the creator and star of the one-woman off-Broadway show Mother Load, comes When Did I Get Like This?, a screamingly funny take on being a modern woman, wife, and mother told with "a level of hilarity that even non-moms can appreciate" (Time Out). Amy Wilson's poignant and provocative, utterly outrageous look at "the Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget-Buyer, and Other Mothers I Swore I'd Never Be" has already earned an appreciative response from Three-Martini Playdate author Christie Mellor, who calls it, "As entertaining as it is reassuring."

 

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