![]() ![]() If only it wasnt repetitive and disingenuous, making her a bit of a poseur as well as a poser. As Dederer entered the precinct of motherhood, she took up yoga, the inspiration for this cleverly yogacentric memoir. As she looks back to her ambiguous family situationher mother fell in love with a hippie but stayed married to, though separated from, her remarkably tolerant husbandDederer contrasts womens flight from the soul-shriveling domesticity of that era with the rise of the super-stressed-out supermom, as women feel compelled to do everything perfectly in every sphere. ![]() ![]() A book reviewer and social critic with bylines in the New York Times, Slate, and Vogue, Dederer acidly deconstructs hip, politically correct Seattle, a very different place than the city she grew up in during the 1970s. Dederers humor is tangy and precision-aimed her targets are the sine qua non of memoirs: mothers and marriage. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |