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Synopsis
Being a mother may not seem that amusing to, well, mothers. But the way Ann Edwards Cannon tells it drawing on real-life experiences that will remind readers of their own most embarrassing family moments parenting can be as hilarious and unpredictable as any situation comedy. Like when her kids forgot to tell her about the police officers waiting for her in the front room . . . or when her youngest refused her collect long-distance telephone call home! She despairs at being able to master such essential mothering skills as the mysterious watermelon thump at the grocery store, and she worries that her children suffer. Because as she has learned: we pass on our goofiest genes to our kids.
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About the Author
Ann Edwards Cannon (class of Provo High '74) is the author of seven books, two of which Amazing Gracie and The Shadow Brothers were named Best Young Adult Book of the Year by the American Library Association. (What's a Mother to Do? is her first book for grown-ups.) She is a columnist for the Deseret News, and writes for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Exponent II, The New Era, Parent Express, Teen, and This People. She is the daughter of Wyoming rodeo queen Patti Louise Covey and Utah State University linebacker LaVell Edwards which may explain a lot. She and her baseball-historian husband, Ken, live in Salt Lake City and have five sons: Philip, Alec, Dylan, Geoffrey, and Quinton. According to a bumper sticker on the family minivan, she once dated Jimi Hendrix, but she says that part is a lie. The rest is real.
Review
This is a collection of humorous essays by the Deseret News columnist (and incidentally, the daughter of BYU football coach LaVell Edwards). Her subject (mostly) is the travails of modern family life with lots of small children. The voice of this book is plucky, smart someone you would like to be friends with. Her comedy is unforced and natural; it's closer to Garrison Keillor than the irritating wackiness of Erma Bombeck. For me, her funniest theme is her secret fear that she has white-trash tendencies (a common fear, I think, among Utah expatriates.) This fear is grimly confirmed when she takes a couple of her boys to the doctor and discovers they aren't wearing any underwear. "I can assure you," she tells the doctor, "that I am wearing mine." The quality of her comedy about her imperfect-but-always-trying family occasionally hits "Simpsons" levels of hilarity. But Edwards also shows a touching, down-to-earth, common-sense sense spirituality than can unexpectedly put tears in your eyes. Highly recommened. --Association of Mormon Letters, R. W. Rasband
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- PublisherSignature Books
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1560850957
- ISBN 13 9781560850953
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages170
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