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Book of the week
| Here’s your first clue that you’ve begun a memoir of motherhood like no other. On page four, Sarah Hoover writes: “It was the simple unspeakable reality that from the moment he was born, this baby sometimes meant as much to me as a stone-cold marble statue in the antiquities section of an art museum.”
What follows is a complicated quest for the reason that Hoover felt so detached from her child and so unmoored in her marriage to a well-known artist.
She writes: “How dare I let myself be this miserable when I was so deeply fortunate?”
Hoover writes candidly about what she calls the “pernicious” myths that motherhood is the very essence of femininity and motherhood and re-examines her relationship with her own mother in “The Motherload.”
— Kerri Miller, MPR News
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| | Why laughing while crying is so Korean |
Comedian Youngmi Mayer talks with NPR about how her Korean family uses humor as a tool for survival. She gets into the Korean comedic tradition and why the saddest stuff is what makes them laugh the hardest. | |
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