Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces

✍ Scribed by Davies, Dawn

• Book ID: 109801603
• Publisher: Flatiron Books
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 718 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781250133700

✦ Synopsis

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If you're looking for a parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother.

This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading "Pie" you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcee who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself...