I Dont Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

ISBN: 0375414053

Author: Pearson, Allison

Condition: New

For every woman trying to strike that impossible balance between work and home-and pretending that she has-and for every woman who has wanted to hurl the acquaintance who coos admiringly, "Honestly, I just dont know how you do it," out a window, heres a novel to make you cringe with recognition and laugh out loud. With fierce, unsentimental irony, Allison Pearsons novel brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of working motherhood at the start of the twenty-first century.Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fund manager and mother of two. She can juggle nine different currencies in five different time zones and get herself and two children washed and dressed and out of the house in half an hour. In Kates life, Everything Goes Perfectly as long as Everything Goes Perfectly. She lies to her own mother about how much time she spends with her kids; practices pelvic floor squeezes in the boardroom; applies tips from Toddler Taming to soothe her irascible boss; uses her cell phone in the office bathroom to procure a hamster for her daughters birthday ("Any working mother who says she doesnt bribe her kids can add Liar to her r