Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home (Hardcover)

~ Doree Shafrir (Author), Jessica Grose (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

MY MOTHER SENDS ME EMAILS IN ALL CAPS SO IT ALWAYS SEEMS LIKE SHE IS YELLING. SO IN HER STYLE I WILL SAY, I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!
-Margaret Cho

Love, Mom is a hilarious look at what happens when interfering, maddening, kvetching, querying, and loving moms push the `send' button. This is a great book for anyone who ever looked at her email inbox and said, `Oh, no--it's from my mom.'
-Amy Dickinson, author of The Mighty Queens of Freeville, "Ask Amy" syndicated advice columnist, and NPR contributor

This book is hilarious and smart--a wittily organized collection that proves, without a doubt, that our moms are humankind's most natural comedians.
-Mike Albo, author of Hornito and The Underminer

I'm much older than my computer--are you suggesting that the older something is, the more uselss it becomes? Because that's what I'm hearing (although I'm not hearing it very well.....)
Love,
your old mom

Yes, I am a pest, but I just looked at Iowa weather and it will be 5 below Tuesday night. Hope you have a hat with ears. Love you, Mom

Sweet, funny, endearing, slightly technologically inept, and always just a little nagging, emails from mothers to their adult children are much more fun to read when it's somebody else's mother. PostcardsFromYoMomma.com is proof of that--when it launched, this repository of reader-submitted missives from Mom received more than 100,000 unique visitors in just the first two weeks. In Love, Mom, editors Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose have assembled more than two hundred of the best never-before-seen submissions.

From school, sex, technology, and appearance to health, work, holidays, and food--and complete with a selection of celebrity emails (including Oscar-winner Diablo Cody's mom on her daughter's "blob"), and sidebars throughout--Love, Mom is ultimately a reflection on how our moms are always our moms . . . no matter how the message is sent.

About the Author

Doree Shafrir is an editor at the New York Observer and a former editor at Gawker.com. She has also contributed to Slate.

Jessica Grose is Managing Editor for Double X, Slate's blog for women, and was formerly an editor at Jezebel.com. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Salon.com, among other places.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Hyperion (March 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401323421
• ISBN-13: 978-1401323424
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #241,461 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet, Funny, and Universal Notes from All Kinds of Moms, March 30, 2009

By	Rachel Kramer Bussel "Cupcakes Take the Cake ... (New York City) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Reading these emails is somewhat like taking a tour through "cyberspace," circa the 1990's. In many of these notes, moms make goofy allusions to various forms of technology. In others, they find new and invasive ways of keeping up with their children. Some are very short and sweet, and others reveal things that moms might not be able to share with their adult kids in any other form. It's a perfect gift for a mom (or grandmother, even), but what's genius about it is that even the most tech-savvy blogger type will also get a chuckle or five out of these motherly mash notes. You're very likely to recognize your own mom in these emails...or be grateful you were spared some of these probing "I've been reading your blog" type notes.

Fans of Postcards from Yo Mamma and new readers will enjoy this; seeing all the entries together is a reminder that checking up on one's kids is pretty universal, as is mothers not letting propriety or anything else stop them from having their say.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!, May 4, 2009

By	Linda (Maui, HI USA) - See all my reviews

This was a gift from one of my grown daughters, and how appropriate! Emails have become the primary form of communication today for a lot of us since most people have become so busy with family, career, and are always on the go; there's not always time for a catching-up telephone call. Some of these are sweet, some make absolutely no sense, some give advice or note the goings-on of the day, and others are just, well, emails.

Be sure to buy the hardcover instead of the Kindle edition. The quality of the paper, 6" x 7" size, and different fonts make it a very special eye-catching book, suitable for a coffee or end table for just picking up and browsing.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved "Love, Mom.", June 8, 2009

By	Russell S. Moore (Springfield, VT) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I loved this little collection of email exchanges between mothers and their kids (mostly daughters). They're funny, poignant, or sometimes even harsh, never contrived but always an honest expression of their relationships.