Mother on Fire: A True Motherf%#$@ Story About Parenting!
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.44 (605 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0609608134 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She is the author of four previous books. SANDRA TSING LOH is an NPR commentator, an Atlantic Monthly contributor, and a successful performance artist
Come the forties, though, cracks begin to appear. In Mother on Fire, she fires away with her trademark hilarious satire of societal and personal irks large and small, including limo liberals who preach the virtues of public school but send their children to fashionable private ones, the proliferation of costly skin-care products that just don’t cut it, society’s obsession with aromatherapy, her Chinese father’s disdain for her life as an artist, and $10 Target pants (“Are they running pants, exercise pants, pajama pants?”) that are the ubiquitous Mother of Small Children uniform. In a theater-of-the-absurd-style odyssey, Mother on Fire documents Loh’s “year of living dangerously” among pompous school admissions officials, lactose-intolerant, Prius-driving parents, mafia dons of public radio, vindictive bosses, and old friends with new money as she first kisses ass—and then kicks it.. Which turns out to be more common than you’d think, among forty-something humans. One staggers suddenly along life’s path; gourmet coffee splats; the wig slips askew. This is a story about the year I exploded into flames. life when she realizes that she can’t afford private school for her daughter,
Mother on Fire Do not let the humor mask the importance of what Sandra Tsing Loh is saying here. There is a real distortion of reality developing on the part of many middle and upper class parents these days. She addresses this both from the inside and the outside arrivi. "Funny, witty and honest" according to CK. I have been reading Loh since her very frist book came out. Even dragged my husband to one of her shows in San Jose a while back, which I enjoyed emmensely. I have eagerly bought every one of her books. Why? because she is so right on, so without shame or . Education system Book club reader Unless you are a parent of young children living in Los Angeles, this book is unlikely to hit any of your hot buttons - it's a manic rant about the education system at the expense of literary merit - however, the honesty and cynicism are redeeming qualitie
Loh is prone to insomnia, expletives (she's fired from her radio spot for using the F word on air), panic (panic attacks are my booster rockets) and exaggeration as she grapples with rejection, middle age, friendship, a clueless but lovable guitar-playing husband and a brilliant but eccentric Chinese father. (Aug.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . The story begins as a droll little breeze that soon sucks the reader into a frenzied whirlwind as Loh recounts her harrowing quest to find a suitable kindergarten for Hannah, her four-year-old daughter (Loh habitually calls Isabel, her two-year-old, simply The Squid). All parents who have searched for an ideal school for their youngster (and even those who haven't) will be snared by Loh's crackling prose. Spurned by the local Lutheran school (which deems the precocious Hannah not developmentally ready), Loh vaults