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Growing Girls : The Mother of All Adventures by Laskas, Jeanne Marie is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Retail Award-winning author Jeanne Marie Laskas has charmed and delighted readers with her heartwarming and hilarious tales of life on Sweetwater Farm. Now she offers her most personal and most deeply felt memoir yet as she embarks on her greatest, most terrifying, most rewarding endeavor of all. A good mother, writes Jeanne Marie Laskas in her latest report from Sweetwater Farm, would have bought a house in the suburbs with a cul-de-sac for her kids to ride bikes around instead of a ramshackle house in the middle of nowhere with a rooster. With the wryly observed self-doubt all mothers and mothers-to-be will instantly recognize, Laskas offers a poignant and laugh-out-loud-funny meditation on that greatestand most impossibleof all lifes journeys: motherhood. What is it, she muses, thats so exhausting about being a mom? Youd think raising two little girls would be a breeze compared to dealing with the barely controlled anarchy of attack roosters, feuding neighbors, and a scheme to turn sheep into lawn mowers on the fifty-acre farm she runs with her bemused husband Alex. But, as any mother knows, youd be wrong. From struggling with the issues of race and identity as she raises two ch

Who reads Growing Girls : The Mother of All Adventures?

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Laskas, Jeanne Marie
Publisher
Bantam Books
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307420695
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Memoir, Family & Relationships, Humor
Rating
3.94 / 5 (190 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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