Dear Mother: Poems on the Hot Mess of Motherhood

The audacity of a child'sdemands for loveare only matchedby the ridiculous depthsof the love their parentshave for them.

Dear Mother wasn't exactly what I was expecting, in good ways and bad. Having followed the author on Facebook for the last couple of years, I'm used to her hilarious, crude, weird status updates, so I honestly expected this to be a funny collection of anecdotes about her kids and her reactions to their zaniness. Instead, I got a collection that was 10% humor, 90% utter seriousness.

to make a two-year-old,combine one puppyone incontinent octopusand a single juice box-loving gangstermix until it starts slapping

dear mother,nothey would notbe better offwithoutyou

hard

All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to the publisher for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!