Warm, honest, funny, and empowering, Rattled! is an unforgettable memoir of a life that takes an unexpected turn—and a brave young woman who decides to follow where the road leads. Everything in twenty-six-year-old Christine’s life was going as planned—great friends, a promising job as a magazine assistant, New York City at her feet . . . even a cute guy. Until the fateful day she realizes she’s pregnant by said cute guy, whom she’d only been dating for a few months. The next thing you know, he bails and Christine is left to wonder, What now? Trading Manhattan for the suburbs, skinny jeans for sweatpants, and all-nighters with the girls for 3 a.m. feedings with a restless infant, Christine chooses to live a life that honors what’s important to her—and finds strength she didn’t know she had in the process.
Rattled!: A Memoir
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"A warm, frank, big-hearted book, which reveals Ms. Coppa’s doubts, difficulties and fears, as it attests to the success she’s made of her life—and of Jack Domenic’s." The New York Times
"I was hooked from the very first page of Christine Coppa's triumphant memoir, Rattled!, an inspirational story which proves that life's richest rewards appear when you least expect them."
--Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times best selling author of Time of My Life
"Sex and the City meets Knocked Up in this moving memoir about a sassy single gal who gets pregnant."
--InTouch Weekly
"Even if you've never found yourself single, pregnant and headed back home to the burbs, you will relate to this true story of life gone wrong-and then oh so right again."
--Susan Goodall, Executive Managing Editor, Glamour
"Christine Coppa is a potty-mouthed, modern-day Holly Golightly. May she steal your heart as she's stolen mine."
–Genevieve Field, co-founder, Nerve.com
"A must-read for new moms. In Rattled! A Memoir (Broadway Books, 2009) Christine Coppa chronicles her life as a single mom, from finding out she is unexpectedly pregnant to parenting her baby boy. The hilarious, yet poignant voice in which she tells her story is sure to resonate with new (as well as more seasoned) moms, and the book makes a perfect Mother's Day gift."
--First Magazine
“Sex and the City crashes into reality at taxicab speed. Coppa is engaging, honest and, ultimately, inspiring.”
–Louise Sloan, author of Knock Yourself Up: A Tell-all Guide to Becoming a Single Mom
“Neither fairy tale or cautionary tale, Rattled! is both a brave, bittersweet memoir about the life that happens when you’re busy making other plans and a hilarious, heartwarming love story about a mother and her son.”
--Matt Sullivan, InTouch Weekly
"Christine Coppa's memoir is deeply affecting--not only has she handled numerous challenging life experiences (including the crux of this book--an unexpected pregnancy) with aplomb, but she also writes about them beautifully and courageously. Shock morphed into poignancy, which in turn morphed into joy--and we were right there with her, inspired at every page turn."
--Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey, authors of The Perfect Manhattan and Cocktail Therapy
"Coppa, 28, is at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." The Sunday London Times
“Sex and the City meets The Devil Wears Prada meets Juno” Banterist.com
"Coppa's memoir traces, in vivid detail, her nine roller-coaster months -- alternating between assured, resolute calm and sheer panicked terror." New York Post
"I was hooked from the very first page of Christine Coppa's triumphant memoir, Rattled!, an inspirational story which proves that life's richest rewards appear when you least expect them."
--Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times best selling author of Time of My Life
"Sex and the City meets Knocked Up in this moving memoir about a sassy single gal who gets pregnant."
--InTouch Weekly
"Even if you've never found yourself single, pregnant and headed back home to the burbs, you will relate to this true story of life gone wrong-and then oh so right again."
--Susan Goodall, Executive Managing Editor, Glamour
"Christine Coppa is a potty-mouthed, modern-day Holly Golightly. May she steal your heart as she's stolen mine."
–Genevieve Field, co-founder, Nerve.com
"A must-read for new moms. In Rattled! A Memoir (Broadway Books, 2009) Christine Coppa chronicles her life as a single mom, from finding out she is unexpectedly pregnant to parenting her baby boy. The hilarious, yet poignant voice in which she tells her story is sure to resonate with new (as well as more seasoned) moms, and the book makes a perfect Mother's Day gift."
--First Magazine
“Sex and the City crashes into reality at taxicab speed. Coppa is engaging, honest and, ultimately, inspiring.”
–Louise Sloan, author of Knock Yourself Up: A Tell-all Guide to Becoming a Single Mom
“Neither fairy tale or cautionary tale, Rattled! is both a brave, bittersweet memoir about the life that happens when you’re busy making other plans and a hilarious, heartwarming love story about a mother and her son.”
--Matt Sullivan, InTouch Weekly
"Christine Coppa's memoir is deeply affecting--not only has she handled numerous challenging life experiences (including the crux of this book--an unexpected pregnancy) with aplomb, but she also writes about them beautifully and courageously. Shock morphed into poignancy, which in turn morphed into joy--and we were right there with her, inspired at every page turn."
--Leanne Shear and Tracey Toomey, authors of The Perfect Manhattan and Cocktail Therapy
"Coppa, 28, is at the forefront of a wave of modern moms who are reinventing the parental publishing genre." The Sunday London Times
“Sex and the City meets The Devil Wears Prada meets Juno” Banterist.com
"Coppa's memoir traces, in vivid detail, her nine roller-coaster months -- alternating between assured, resolute calm and sheer panicked terror." New York Post
About the Author
CHRISTINE COPPA is a freelance writer and pens the popular Storked! blog on Glamour.com. She lives in New Jersey with her son, Jack Domenic.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I am a reader of Christine's blog Storked! I enjoy reading it daily and am always amused by her stories of single parenthood. This book was a huge disappointment for me. There was no flow. It was choppy and too easy to read. I felt as though this book would be better suited for a high school level reader who is easily engulfed by stories of overly priced items and a woman who refers to the same moments and the same feelings over and over in the book. Christine was always reaching some revolution, always feeling proud (which she most certainly should!) but telling of it over and over and over. Thousands of single mothers (even married mothers) give up much more than weekly splurges on $70 t-shirts, $200 jeans and daily cosmos after work with their girlfriends. Christine should be any more applauded than any of the others.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By AngeH
Format:Paperback
Christine Coppa seems to be an extremely confident woman, who has lived a very blessed and fortunate life. She had an idyllic, suburban childhood: beautiful home; two older brothers who adore her; affluent, loving parents. Now as a young adult, she lives in Manhattan and has a glamorous job, an exciting social life, and a hot new boyfriend, referred to as "A" throughout the book.
In the midst of all this, a night of unprotected passion with "A" results in an unplanned pregnancy. Fortunately for Ms. Coppa, her family (including her elderly Italian grandmother), her coworkers, and a huge network of friends trip all over themselves vying to be the most excited, non-judgemental, and approving of this development, and to offer the most support. The heroine herself almost immediately begins anticipating the birth of her baby with joy. "A" alone does not share in this general feeling of awesomeness, and ultimately runs for the hills, but that barely ruffles her feathers.
I am long past my "Glamour" reading years, so I am unfamiliar with Ms. Coppa's blog, but I assume it is a better showcase for her writing style; and perhaps already being a fan of the blog is necessary to enjoy "Rattled." While I can be happy for the author and her adorable son and how perfectly everything all worked out, it's hard to understand why any of this is supposed to have made an interesting book. The pacing is dull, there is no dramatic tension, no climactic moment or shocking revelation. Ms. Coppa suffers no real ambivalence about motherhood, nor did she experience any significant hardship - financial, medical or otherwise - to bring her baby into the world.
Christine Coppa can write, and I certainly don't blame her for capitalizing on the popularity of her blog. But I suppose I expect a memoir to be the story of someone who has accomplished something great, or about someone who has overcome great adversity to triumph in an inspiring way, or at the very least to be a new or extremely witty twist on a familiar theme. "Rattled" is none of these.
In the midst of all this, a night of unprotected passion with "A" results in an unplanned pregnancy. Fortunately for Ms. Coppa, her family (including her elderly Italian grandmother), her coworkers, and a huge network of friends trip all over themselves vying to be the most excited, non-judgemental, and approving of this development, and to offer the most support. The heroine herself almost immediately begins anticipating the birth of her baby with joy. "A" alone does not share in this general feeling of awesomeness, and ultimately runs for the hills, but that barely ruffles her feathers.
I am long past my "Glamour" reading years, so I am unfamiliar with Ms. Coppa's blog, but I assume it is a better showcase for her writing style; and perhaps already being a fan of the blog is necessary to enjoy "Rattled." While I can be happy for the author and her adorable son and how perfectly everything all worked out, it's hard to understand why any of this is supposed to have made an interesting book. The pacing is dull, there is no dramatic tension, no climactic moment or shocking revelation. Ms. Coppa suffers no real ambivalence about motherhood, nor did she experience any significant hardship - financial, medical or otherwise - to bring her baby into the world.
Christine Coppa can write, and I certainly don't blame her for capitalizing on the popularity of her blog. But I suppose I expect a memoir to be the story of someone who has accomplished something great, or about someone who has overcome great adversity to triumph in an inspiring way, or at the very least to be a new or extremely witty twist on a familiar theme. "Rattled" is none of these.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By S. Jones
Format:Paperback
While the story of a woman who finds herself unexpectedly pregnant and then unemployed has the potential for a great read, I found the book filled with way too many random and repetitive dialogue and scenes. I was interested when Christine first finds herself pregnant and had to break the news to close friends and family, but by the time she's still writing about telling her out-of-town friend weeks later, I couldn't help wonder why we still needed the play-by-play. I also found much of the book to be quite focused on Christine's defensiveness about entering single-parenthood, which was anything but inspirational. As a formerly single mother myself, I find it disturbing how quickly and easily Christine took every inquiry about the baby's father as a judgement of her as a single mother. Is it really fair to fault the surgeon for asking if the father would like to attend the C-Section? For the sonnogram technician for referencing the father in the pictures he provided? Her observations about others looking at her pregnant belly and then looking for a ring also struck me as unneccessarily paranoid. As very few women I know have actually been able to wear a ring by the third trimester, I doubt very much that most would even use the lack of a ring as relevant. I hope this is an attitude Christine can lose as her child gets older and that she learns to handle the situation with more grace and dignity, before he picks up that chip himself.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars
Rattled!
This was a really boring read. She isn't a talented writer (constantly using the same phrases repeatedly) and it was definitely not a page turner. I wouldn't recommend it.
Published 19 months ago by Jennifer
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful!
This was a beautiful well written review! I absolutely could not put it down from the minute I started reading it. I am a mother of two and one on the way. Read more
Published on January 11, 2011 by Diana Fournier
3.0 out of 5 stars
A little too whiney
I managed to finish this book but the entire time I was reading it I couldn't get over how obsessed and repetitive the main character was. Read more
Published on September 29, 2010 by GiGi
3.0 out of 5 stars
Meh
My husband bought me this book because I've enjoyed the blog Storked! However, I found the flow of the book really choppy. Read more
Published on May 29, 2010 by B. Lapseritis
5.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it!
I loved Rattled! I work at a publishing company, and someone had left an advance copy out as a freebie. I grabbed it, began reading that night, and couldn't put it down. Read more
Published on April 28, 2010 by heather
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good, easy read
I have been a follower of Chrissy's blog so I decided to pick up her book. I must say, it is very well written. Others have called it choppy, I didnt think that at all. Read more
Published on December 8, 2009 by KMJ
2.0 out of 5 stars
Stay on subject!
I read 40 pages and then returned it. This girl goes off on boring tangents that have nothing to do with anything. Read more
Published on August 13, 2009 by Julia
5.0 out of 5 stars
Easy Enjoyable read
I am not a reader of the Storked blog, but do remember reading about it in Glamour. I enjoyed the writing in this book and read it in less than a day. Read more
Published on June 8, 2009 by S. Nelson
2.0 out of 5 stars
comsi comsa coppa
Once the author stopped congratulating herself for basically everything (I was so compassionate, I was so calm, I was so much bigger than my crappy ex) it was a nice breezy book... Read more
Published on June 2, 2009 by E
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fantastic Read!!
This book is so well written, with a great sense of humor. The deomographic is huge, its really for any person who has ever had something unexpected drop into their life. Read more
Published on May 23, 2009 by Erica
