Jennifer Weiss and Lauren Franklin - Hurts Like a Mother: A Cautionary Alphabet — in the Children & Teens Dept.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm

Co-authors Weiss, a Brooklyn-based public health policy consultant, and Franklin, who lives in Washington, together founded the children’s clothing company babyPolitico; they are also both mothers and know well the joys and perils of parenting. Their book, in the darkly humorous vein of Edward Gorey’s classic The Gashlycrumb Tinies, is an album of mothers driven to distraction, from Amy, who “overdid the Pinot at the Parent Potluck” to Zoe, who at last “chose to retire.” These twenty-six scenes of domestic bedlam are accompanied by the witty graphics of award-winning comics artist Kenneth Kit Lamug.

This event is part of the Politics & Prose Parenting series.

5015 Connecticut Ave NW

Washington, DC 20008

Non Fiction

Child & Teen

Hurts Like a Mother: A Cautionary Alphabet Cover Image

Hurts Like a Mother: A Cautionary Alphabet (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Weiss, Lauren Franklin, Ken Lamug (Illustrator)

$14.95

ISBN: 9780385540773

Availability: Not On Our Shelves—Ships in 1-5 Days

Published: Doubleday - April 5th, 2016

Not Signed or Personalized

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