I saw Ayelet last night at a book signing in Santa Cruz and I cannot tell you how much I needed to hear what she had to say. I no longer feel guilty that I don't volunteer to sew angel wings on fairy costumes or listen to every tweener saga my daughter has to tell me about the weird kid in her class who eats paper. Thank you Ayelet for writing such an insightful, humorous, illuminating book about the real trials of being a mother in today's dizzying, demanding world.
B-t-w Ayelet, if you read this I am the mom/stepmom who dragged my husband to the reading and he actually asked a question.
"This book made me happy, and happy to be alive. It took me out of my home on the coast of South Carolina, placed me in the town along Red Hook Road, and changed me the way good books always do."
— PAT CONROY, My Life in Books
"A thoroughly gripping and elegantly written story about love, grief, friendship, and the unexpected ways in which disaster brings families together."
— KHALED HOSSEINI, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns
"Red Hook Road is a masterful imagining of the way a single tragic event impacts the psyches and behaviors and dynamics of two families. Waldman's writing is elegant and riveting."
— KELLY CORRIGAN, The Middle Place
I saw Ayelet last night at a book signing in Santa Cruz and I cannot tell you how much I needed to hear what she had to say. I no longer feel guilty that I don't volunteer to sew angel wings on fairy costumes or listen to every tweener saga my daughter has to tell me about the weird kid in her class who eats paper. Thank you Ayelet for writing such an insightful, humorous, illuminating book about the real trials of being a mother in today's dizzying, demanding world.
B-t-w Ayelet, if you read this I am the mom/stepmom who dragged my husband to the reading and he actually asked a question.
Comment created on May 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM