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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
The frustrations and rewards of modern domestic life provide the context for the 11 stories in this collection. Most of the characters are parents new or experienced contemplating both the wonder and the alienation of family life. Like the author (a pediatrician), many of the adults in these stories work in medicine or related fields and juggle various roles. An anesthesiologist in "Necessary Risks," for example, is more accustomed to her breadwinner status in the family than to spending time alone with her four-year-old daughter, and the obstetrician in "Freedom Fighter" contends with her third pregnancy while trying to find common ground with an old college friend on a weekend road trip in New England. Professional knowledge and competence is often contrasted with domestic helplessness, prompting internal psychological musing and admissions of fear and weakness. In "The Trouble with Sophie," a fruit-fly geneticist and her outgoing attorney husband react in very different ways when a kindergarten teacher recommends that their bright but undisciplined daughter attend therapy; in the title story, a pediatrician and mother reflects on the limits of modern knowledge when the half-sister she has never really liked loses her baby to sudden infant death syndrome. As a medical professional and nonfiction writer, as well as an award-winning fiction writer (Recombinations, etc.), Klass knows her territory well. (May 1)Forecast: A Mother's Day promotion and Northeast regional author's tour should reach just the right audience for Klass's brand of humorous domestic realism. Accomplished but also easy to read, this collection should be an easy handsell to aficionados of contemporary women's literature and may attract crossover mass market readers.
From Library Journal
Klass, a pediatrician and author of nonfiction as well as novels, has gathered 11 sparkling short stories sharing the theme of domestic life. The mothers are generally practical, scientific types struggling with the messy reality of mixing children and work. Three of the stories were O. Henry award winners, and there isn't a clunker in the bunch. Among the best is "The Trouble with Sophie," in which the tall, thin, dark parents of rambunctious golden-haired Sophie are sent reeling when the teacher at her carefully selected private kindergarten suggests therapy for their emotionally disturbed daughter. In another fine story, "Freedom Fighter," a very pregnant doctor and mother of two sets off on an escape weekend to Maine with a college friend whose one son is grown. Very, very good work. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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The frustrations and rewards of modern domestic life provide the context for the 11 stories in this collection. Most of the characters are parents new or experienced contemplating both the wonder and the alienation of family life. Like the author (a pediatrician), many of the adults in these stories work in medicine or related fields and juggle various roles. An anesthesiologist in "Necessary Risks," for example, is more accustomed to her breadwinner status in the family than to spending time alone with her four-year-old daughter, and the obstetrician in "Freedom Fighter" contends with her third pregnancy while trying to find common ground with an old college friend on a weekend road trip in New England. Professional knowledge and competence is often contrasted with domestic helplessness, prompting internal psychological musing and admissions of fear and weakness. In "The Trouble with Sophie," a fruit-fly geneticist and her outgoing attorney husband react in very different ways when a kindergarten teacher recommends that their bright but undisciplined daughter attend therapy; in the title story, a pediatrician and mother reflects on the limits of modern knowledge when the half-sister she has never really liked loses her baby to sudden infant death syndrome. As a medical professional and nonfiction writer, as well as an award-winning fiction writer (Recombinations, etc.), Klass knows her territory well. (May 1)Forecast: A Mother's Day promotion and Northeast regional author's tour should reach just the right audience for Klass's brand of humorous domestic realism. Accomplished but also easy to read, this collection should be an easy handsell to aficionados of contemporary women's literature and may attract crossover mass market readers.
Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.From Library Journal
Klass, a pediatrician and author of nonfiction as well as novels, has gathered 11 sparkling short stories sharing the theme of domestic life. The mothers are generally practical, scientific types struggling with the messy reality of mixing children and work. Three of the stories were O. Henry award winners, and there isn't a clunker in the bunch. Among the best is "The Trouble with Sophie," in which the tall, thin, dark parents of rambunctious golden-haired Sophie are sent reeling when the teacher at her carefully selected private kindergarten suggests therapy for their emotionally disturbed daughter. In another fine story, "Freedom Fighter," a very pregnant doctor and mother of two sets off on an escape weekend to Maine with a college friend whose one son is grown. Very, very good work. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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