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Perfect Madness

Judith Warner

2005336 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2005
first published
  • 2005Riverhead Hardcover
  • 2006Penguin Random House · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780091907167
  • 2006Riverhead Books
  • 2007Penguin Random House · ENGISBN 9780091912802
  • 2008Penguin Group USA, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781436247788
  • 2015Ebury Publishing · ENGISBN 9781446491652
  • 2005Riverhead Hardcover · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9781573223041
  • 2006Riverhead Trade · 352 pages · ENGISBN 9781594481703

The paradigm-shattering bestseller that investigates how women have fallen into the trap of "total motherhood," and how that mind-set damages them and their relationships with their husbands and children. Manic cookie-baking at midnight. Play dates as complicated as peace summits. Mother-of-the-birthday-boy meltdown. Ambien nights and Ritalin days. No sex. No nights out. No sleep. Ever. It's madness. Now, in one of the most controversial books of the year, Judith Warner blows the lid off American mothers dirty little secret by interviewing those American mothers across the country to try to better understand what's wrong with the culture of American parenting.

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