Bøker av Beth Ann Fennelly

With elegant word play and her usual subversive wit, Beth Ann Fennelly questions our everyday human foibles.

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.

"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband's sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." -from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"

"With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance." -Robert Hass

A fearless delineation of the joys, absorptions, and-yes-jealousies of new motherhood.