The Mother Zone by Marni Jackson


The Mother Zone
Title : The Mother Zone
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ISBN : 0679312145
ISBN-10 : 9780679312147
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 288
Publication : First published September 24, 1992

Nights of no sleep, steeped in equal parts love, resentment and bodily fluids. The most intense tenderness warring with the deepest despair. The biggest question on a new mother’s mind: WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME IT WOULD BE LIKE THIS? Marni Jackson’s touching, funny and provocative journey through the terra incognita of motherhood will help you survive it and won’t let you forget. Ten years after its first publication, The Mother Zone is still fresh, still original, still the one book that every mother (and father) needs.

The Mother Zone Reviews

  • Marla

    This is a book that I needed as a new(ish) mother and I loved it. I still do, as it takes me back to the moments when mothering was so fresh and raw, and reminds me how lucky I am. Marnie Jackson hits all the right marks; it is funny, profound, smart and touching. It is a book that I give to many new(ish) mothers.

  • Nicola

    Marni Jackson has written a beautifully truthful book about what it is to become a parent, in all its searing pain and beauty. She has given articulate voice to every emotion a mother experiences in this honest and evocative memoir. She is an incredibly smart and resourceful writer.

  • Dorothy

    Thoughtful, honest memoir about motherhood

  • Andrea Paterson

    honest and well told.

  • Leanne

    "It is easy, so easy, to drown in family, inch by cozy inch." p.237.

    This book threw me a rope when I needed it most.