If it's not one thing, it's your mother / Julia Sweeney.
Author: Sweeney, Julia.
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
ISBN: 9781451674040 (hbk.)
145167404X (hbk.)
9781451674057 (pbk.)
1451674058 (pbk.)
9781451674064 (ebk.)
1451674066 (ebk.)
Description: viii, 246 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject: Sweeney, Julia.
Adopted children California Biography.
Motherhood California Biography.
Parenting California Biography.
Contents: Prologue -- Week one: unto me a child is given -- If it's not one thing, it's your mother -- Just tinking -- Channeling food -- China sweeney -- Strong and beautiful -- Letters from camp -- Week two: independence -- Three Chinese nannies -- Arden -- Big strollers are bad -- Three boyfriends and reflections on a high school crush -- The birds and the bees -- A fan letter -- Sphexy -- Week three: death -- The decline and fall of practically everybody -- Starter gods -- Pussy -- Baby on board -- The color of skin -- Phone bill -- Week four: dependene -- My nemesis -- A proposal at Starbucks -- An education -- Hinky dink is sinking -- Tomorrow they arrive.
