Synopses & Reviews
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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"Amateur Hour finds Kimberly Harrington as funny, cutting, honest, and brilliant as ever." Christopher Monks, editor of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and author of The Ultimate Game Guide to Your Life
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"Her quirky, dissenting energy should resonate with parents who find little use for the usual mommy-blogger fare." Kirkus
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"Kimberly Harrington deftly and hilariously uncovers all of the lies and bullshit women are told about motherhood. This book made me laugh, sure, but it also made me feel seen." Jennifer Romolini, chief content officer at Shondaland.com and author of Weird in a World That’s Not
About the Author
Kimberly Harrington is a regular contributor to McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the co-founder and editor of parenting humor site RAZED, and a copywriter and creative director. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Timothy McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, and on Medium. She lives in Vermont on purpose.