Reviews | September 23, 2014
Unmothers: Women Writing About Life Without Children
Erika Dreifus
Featuring reviews of:
- No Kidding: Women Writers on Bypassing Parenthood edited by Henriette Mantel with aforeword by Jennifer Coolidge. Seal Press, 2013, 248 pp., $16 (paperback; also available in e-book format).
- Otherhood: Modern Women Finding a New Kind of Happiness by Melanie Notkin. Seal Press, 2014, 320 pp., $24 (hardcover; also available in e-book format).
- I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales from a Happy Life Without Kids by Jen Kirkman.
- Simon and Schuster, 2013, 224 pp., $22 (hardcover; also available in paperback and e-book formats).
- New Life, No Instructions: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell. Random House, 2014, 177 pp., $23 (hardcover; also available in e-book and audio formats).
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