{"product_id":"the-mother-by-rachel-deutsch-9781771624329","title":"The Mother","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is a truly beautiful and special book.\u003c\/strong\u003e Emily Oster, author of \u003cem\u003eExpecting Better\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCribsheet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSearching, honest, funny, and beautiful.\u003c\/strong\u003e Rachel Yoder, author of \u003cem\u003eNightbitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI laugh-sobbed my way through \u003cem\u003eThe Mother\u003c\/em\u003e, so loudly my children came to check on me.\u003c\/strong\u003e Angela Garbes, author of \u003cem\u003eEssential Labor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLike a Mother\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this hilarious and harrowingly honest graphic memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Rachel Deutsch, aka @weirdmomart on Instagram, shares the story of her journey into motherhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby. She wanted to press her face into theirs and feed them from her body. Eventually her child might hate her a little. But they'd be on speaking terms most of the time. Wait... or was that just Rachel's experience with her mum? Had she processed her own childhood enough to raise a child herself!?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is about the constant dualities and contradictions of motherhood. The collision of future Rachel and past Rachel. Desperately wanting to get pregnant while fearful of being pregnant. Loving a new identity while missing an old one. Celebrating a new family while mourning the previous incarnation of a partnership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, provocative, and unabashedly candid, Deutsch's memoir embraces both the joys and the challenges of modern parenthood in a way that will resonate with new and seasoned parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487624675564,"sku":"9781771624329","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9df5b8add68d50bdbc055ec66260793b.jpg?v=1775772091","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-mother-by-rachel-deutsch-9781771624329","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}