{"product_id":"screaming-on-the-inside-the-unsustainability-of-american-motherhood-9780063078369","title":"Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"If this book feels like it's sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that's because it is.\" -- \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this timely and necessary book, \u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e opinion writer Jessica Grose dismantles two hundred years of unrealistic parenting expectations and empowers today's mothers to make choices that actually serve themselves, their children, and their communities\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClose your eyes and picture the perfect mother. She is usually blonde and thin. Her roots are never showing and she installed that gleaming kitchen backsplash herself (watch her TikTok for DIY tips). She seamlessly melds work, wellness and home; and during the depths of the pandemic, she also ran remote school and woke up at 5 a.m. to meditate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou may read this and think it's bananas; you have probably internalized much of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalist Jessica Grose sure had. After she failed to meet every one of her own expectations for her first pregnancy, she devoted her career to revealing how morally bankrupt so many of these ideas and pressures are. Now, in \u003cem\u003eScreaming on the Inside, \u003c\/em\u003eGrose weaves together her personal journey with scientific, historical, and contemporary reporting to be the voice for American parents she wishes she'd had a decade ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe truth is that parenting cannot follow a recipe; there's no foolproof set of rules that will result in a perfectly adjusted child. Every parent has different values, and we will have different ideas about how to pass those values along to our children. What successful parenting has in common, regardless of culture or community, is close observation of the kind of unique humans our children are. In thoughtful and revelatory chapters about pregnancy, identity, work, social media, and the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic, Grose explains how we got to this moment, why the current state of expectations on mothers is wholly unsustainable, and how we can move towards something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Grose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.28w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063078369\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGrose, Jessica:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Grose\u003c\/strong\u003e is an opinion writer at \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times who writes a popular newsletter on parenting\u003c\/em\u003e. Jess was the founding editor of Lenny, the email newsletter and website. She also writes about women's health, culture, politics and grizzly bears. She was named one of LinkedIn's Next Wave top professionals 35 and under in 2016 and a \u003cem\u003eGlamour \u003c\/em\u003e\"Game Changer\" in 2020 for her coverage of parenting in the pandemic. She is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eSoulmates \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eSad Desk Salad. \u003c\/em\u003eShe was formerly a senior editor at \u003cem\u003eSlate, \u003c\/em\u003e and an editor at Jezebel. Her work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ethe New York Times, New York, the Washington Post, Businessweek, Elle, Cosmopolitan\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Jessica Grose \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48311297835165,"sku":"9780063078369","price":22.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_67c3bb36-21b6-4b5f-aac8-933af1ee7873.jpg?v=1779261049","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/screaming-on-the-inside-the-unsustainability-of-american-motherhood-9780063078369","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}