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You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: The Diary of a New Mother [Paperback]

Judith Newman


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Book Description

May 11 2005
A brutally honest and hilarious memoir from an over-forty first-time mom.

Veteran journalist and Ladies Home Journal columnist, Judith Newman spent seven years and $70,000 on infertility treatments, and finally, at age forty, she became pregnant with twins. You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman is not only her account of having children later in life: it's about what happens to a marriage -- and to the spirit, when even the most sought-after baby comes. Wry, warm, and brutally honest, this is the book for any woman who has awakened at 3 AM to the insistent shrieks of her darling and thought: Oh man, I'm too old for this.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Miramax Books (May 11 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1401359639
  • ISBN-13: 978-1401359638
  • Product Dimensions: 2.1 x 13.1 x 20.1 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 340 g
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #967,350 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent, harmful May 3 2007
By Jane's daughter - Published on Amazon.com
Newman goes for the big laugh and that's fine (I laughed, too, sometimes). But her page-long rant about adoption was disgusting and truly harmful. Perpetuating negative stereotypes about adopted children ("horribly damaged") is unconscionable. After all the chemicals and hormones and medical intervention it takes to create her babies, she's worried about the unknown gene pool of an adopted child?!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Unpleasant Woman Dec 17 2011
By ReadClosely - Published on Amazon.com
If this book is supposed to be edgy, funny, and insightful, it fails miserably. What I read between the lines is very painful account by a very unpleasant, sad, superficial woman who tries to make her life look interesting and brave. The writing is mediocre at best. The whole thing smacks of half-truth upon half-truth, just an attempt to sell a book. But what do you expect from someone who makes a living interviewing celebrities? She must have mistakenly thought she was a celebrity too and that we'd want to read about her. And I agree with other reviewers -- this book makes me worried for the author's kids. And shudder for her friends. Shallowness, callousness, and an absence of grace and class are what come through. I'd look elsewhere if you want a truly good read about the self-doubt involved in raising a child, like Annie Lamott's "Operating Instructions" a book that is original, funny, and deep. Don't waste your time or money here with Ms. Newman's weird unhappy life. Pleased to see it is on the remainder pile for one penny.

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