Wickedly Funny Confessions from the Early Years

A television crime reporter and full-time mother tells it like it is in this raw, irreverent collection of essays.

This brutally funny account is just what mothers are asking for when they curl up with a book at night after a seventeen-hour day in the trenches. Amanda Lamb is a regular contributor to Dot-moms.com. She's been lauded by The New York Times and Time magazine. She portrays the reality of raising children, working, and keeping a family together as hard, challenging, and sometimes downright awful. But in the middle of the muck there are also wickedly funny moments that beg to be recorded and shared. These are those stories.

Quotes

"Nowhere is the daze that swings between exultation and extinction in early motherhood better described. Amanda Lamb's raw, tender, bone-honest truths drive homethat some things would be too difficult--if we didn't do them out of love."
— Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of Still Summer and The Deep End of the Ocean

"For manic, multi-tasking mothers everywhere! Amanda's tales will make you laugh--and remind you to enjoy this crazy journey."
— Jane Skinner, anchor, Fox News Channel

"Amanda Lamb stands out as the new voice for momhood--not scared to say that parenting is not only sometimes scary but often laugh-out-loud hilarious, even raucous, but always tender ..."
— Hollis Gillespie, author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch

"A must-read for working moms. Amanda Lamb beautifully captures the chaos that is her life as a mother and a TV journalist."
— Mika Brzezinski, MSNBC anchor/NBC News contributor

"Amanda Lamb is a hard-charging, pull-no-punches veteran television reporter. Smotherhood doesn't pull any punches either. It is her story of the wrestling match with the demands of motherhood, marriage, and a very busy career, told in a way that is unabashed, honest, and frank."
— Mary P. Easley, JD, First Lady of North Carolina

"For manic, multi-tasking mothers everywhere! Amanda's tales will make you laugh--and remind you to enjoy this crazy journey."
— Jane Skinner, anchor, Fox News Channel

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2007 by Amanda Lamb

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

Smotherhood is a trademark of the author, used by permission.

Originally published by skirt!, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press.
skirt!, a registered imprint of Morris Communications, LLC, is used with express permission.

Designed by Jane Sheppard.

skirt! books are all about women--spirited, unpredictable, independent, sometimes controversial, always passionate.

Opening Lines (Experimental)

"Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children."
"Why can't I ride my bike in the street by myself?"
Her entire body pleaded with me. Even the mismatched shirt stained with red juice, the oversize T-shirt skirt, and the purple plastic leopard-printed flip-flops seemed to be ...

Copyright

Copyright 2007 by Amanda Lamb

All Rights Reserved.