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The Rest of Us

Dispatches from the Mother Ship

by Jacquelyn Mitchard
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For ten years of Sunday mornings, readers of Jacquelyn Mitchard’s newspaper column, “The Rest of Us,” have been calling their mothers, boyfriends and sisters to say, “See? That’s exactly what I meant!” Mitchard’s clear-eyed takes on everyday life in process are described over and over as “a letter from home,” as “the best friend I can really count on,” and as “the kind of story you tell at the coffee machine—and keep under your pillow.”
Jacquelyn Mitchard reaches for heart and mind simultaneously, with both wit and nostalgia but never with sentimentality. Whether writing of gun laws and garage sales, the loneliness of the long-haul single mother, fear of gardening, or the late great American game of baseball, Mitchard stresses the personal stake each of us has in the stand-up drama of daily life.
The single mother of five children, she shares her own family’s dramas and epiphanies—her own mother’s tradition of optimism based on nothing, the early death of her husband, the adoption of her baby daughter, as well as the great wheeling issues that confound Americans every day.

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  • Release date

    March 1, 1999

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      • ISBN: 9781101199534

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      • ISBN: 9781101199534
      • File size: 652 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 3, 1997
      Mitchard, a speechwriter, editor and novelist (The Deep End of the Ocean), has collected selections from her weekly newspaper column written for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel over the last 12 years. Her entertaining and thought-provoking commentaries on life as a working mother of five cover a variety of subjects. Women will identify with her witty essay "Giving Holidays to the Turkeys," on celebrations like Thanksgiving, which men regard as "relaxing" while their wives toil in the kitchen. Many pieces discuss experiences inherent in motherhood, such as whether, or when, to lie to one's children. Mitchard also presents her strong opinions on current topics, including assisted suicide, adoption, meat eating and gun control. Of particular interest, however, is a moving article, "A Star to Steer By," written after the death of her 45-year-old husband from cancer. Author tour.

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  • English

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