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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Gross's third novel (following Getting Out) documents the front lines of the Mommy Wars, but its real strength lies in exposing the complex inner battlefields motherhood can open up. Eight months pregnant Amanda, a successful children's book editor and dedicated New Yorker, picks up with her lawyer husband and moves to suburban Teaneck, N.J. Her new neighbor, Thea Caldwell, is a full-time mother of three who still lives in her childhood home and who arrives bearing brownies. When the newcomers take extended shelter in the Caldwells' basement following a damaging storm and, later, when Amanda hires Thea as her newborn's nanny, the growing intimacy between the two breeds resentment, bitterness and misunderstandings. The series of external crises designed to create tension and suspense are, in the end, less compelling than the women's own inner demons, revealed through alternating, and overlapping, first-person narration. Jersey resident Gross shows the strife between SAHMs (Stay at Home Moms) and WOTHs (moms who Work Outside the Home) to be a lot more nuanced than it's often portrayed. (Aug.)
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From Booklist
Maybe Thea resented Amanda moving into the house that once belonged to her childhood best friend. Perhaps Amanda was jealous of Thea's effortless domestic skills. Or maybe Thea couldn't approve of Amanda's decision to return to work after the birth of her daughter Malena, while Amanda failed to understand how Thea could find fulfillment as the stay-at-home mom of three. Whatever the reasons, it soon becomes clear that there is ample potential for animosity between these two neighbors, and the hostilities only escalate once Amanda's family is forced to move in with Thea's after their house is extensively damaged during a violent storm and Thea offers to become Malena's nanny. When dead animals start showing up on Thea's doorstep, however, Amanda is her first suspect, and, suddenly, whatever petty differences the two families may have had take on sinister new meaning. By using the alternating points of view of each intensely multifaceted woman, Gross paints an electrifyingly complex and explosively gripping portrait of contemporary, have-it-all motherhood. Haggas, Carol
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Gross's third novel (following Getting Out) documents the front lines of the Mommy Wars, but its real strength lies in exposing the complex inner battlefields motherhood can open up. Eight months pregnant Amanda, a successful children's book editor and dedicated New Yorker, picks up with her lawyer husband and moves to suburban Teaneck, N.J. Her new neighbor, Thea Caldwell, is a full-time mother of three who still lives in her childhood home and who arrives bearing brownies. When the newcomers take extended shelter in the Caldwells' basement following a damaging storm and, later, when Amanda hires Thea as her newborn's nanny, the growing intimacy between the two breeds resentment, bitterness and misunderstandings. The series of external crises designed to create tension and suspense are, in the end, less compelling than the women's own inner demons, revealed through alternating, and overlapping, first-person narration. Jersey resident Gross shows the strife between SAHMs (Stay at Home Moms) and WOTHs (moms who Work Outside the Home) to be a lot more nuanced than it's often portrayed. (Aug.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Maybe Thea resented Amanda moving into the house that once belonged to her childhood best friend. Perhaps Amanda was jealous of Thea's effortless domestic skills. Or maybe Thea couldn't approve of Amanda's decision to return to work after the birth of her daughter Malena, while Amanda failed to understand how Thea could find fulfillment as the stay-at-home mom of three. Whatever the reasons, it soon becomes clear that there is ample potential for animosity between these two neighbors, and the hostilities only escalate once Amanda's family is forced to move in with Thea's after their house is extensively damaged during a violent storm and Thea offers to become Malena's nanny. When dead animals start showing up on Thea's doorstep, however, Amanda is her first suspect, and, suddenly, whatever petty differences the two families may have had take on sinister new meaning. By using the alternating points of view of each intensely multifaceted woman, Gross paints an electrifyingly complex and explosively gripping portrait of contemporary, have-it-all motherhood. Haggas, Carol
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