I just finished reading Allison Pearson's "I Don't Know How She Does It"--a great book! Anyone else read it? I just thought it was a beautiful, funny, heartwarming and heartrending look at one mother's journey. My sister, who has jumped headlong into the world of HR in NYC (and swallowed the rhetoric and idealogy whole), said, "I heard that's a very negative portrayal of working mothers." BLEH. I don't think this book is a hack job on working mothers at all. But I do think it is an unblinking examination of the realities of choosing a high-paced career at the expense of your children (keep in mind that they are examining people who have a choice NOT moms who are forced back into the workplace). And I think it is incredibly sympathetic to what working moms go through and it examines key issues that as women and mothers we all need to grapple with.
Anyhow, it was a wonderful book and it made me cry when I thought about how darn lucky I am.
So. Read the book
Marianne
