Planting Dandelions: Field Notes From a Semi-Domesticated Life - Couverture rigide

Pittman, Kyran

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1594488002 ISBN 13 : 9781594488009

Editeur : Riverhead Hardcover, 2011

Synopsis

Introducing a writer with a keen eye, a wicked tongue, and an appealing take on family.

In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert, Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding, with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids and living in the heartland. Relatable and real, she writes about family in a way that highlights all its humor, while at the same time honoring its depth.

A regular contributor to Good Housekeeping, Pittman is well loved because she is funny and honest and self-deprecating, because her own household is in chaos ("semi-domesticated"), and because she inspires readers in their own domestic lives. In these eighteen linked, chronological essays, Pittman covers the first twelve years of becoming a family, writing candidly and hilariously about things like learning to maintain a marriage over time; dealing with the challenges of sex after childbirth; saying good-bye to her younger self and embracing the still attractive, forty-year-old version; and trying to "recession- proof" her family (i.e., downsize to avoid foreclosure).

From a fresh new talent, celebrating the joys and trials of a new generation of parents, Planting Dandelions is an entertaining tribute to choosing the white-picket fence over the other options available, even if you don't manage to live up to its ideals every day.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kyran Pittman is a contributing writer for Good Housekeeping. She lives in Arkansas with her husband and three children.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Riverhead Hardcover
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1594488002
• ISBN 13: 9781594488009
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible