Beth Ann Fennelly is fearless in delineating the joys, absorptions, and yes jealousies of new motherhood. Having studied motherhood "as if for an exam," reality proved "wilder and deeper and funnier" than anything she'd anticipated.Tender Hooks is Fennelly's spirited exploration of parenting, with all its contradictions and complexities."
Beth Ann Fennelly is fearless in delineating the joys, absorptions, and yes jealousies of new motherhood. Having studied motherhood "as if for an exam...
Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the nuts and bolts or sentimentality of other parenting literature, in letters that range in tone from serious to sisterly, from lighthearted to downright funny. Some answer specific questions; others muse about the identity shift a woman encounters when she enters Mommyland. This book invites all mothers to join the grand circle of giving and receiving advice about children.
Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the nuts and bolts or sentimentality of other parenting literature, in letters that...
Hailed as a brilliant blueprint of the imagination (David Baker), Open House established Beth Ann Fennelly as an ambitious and spacious young talent (Paul Zimmer) and introduced us to her passion, compassion, inventiveness, and intelligence (Alison Hawthorne Deming)."
Hailed as a brilliant blueprint of the imagination (David Baker), Open House established Beth Ann Fennelly as an ambitious and spacious young talent (...