The Mother of all Motherhood novels.In this riotously funny, ruefully honest, and irresistibly warmhearted debut, Samantha Wilde writes about one new mother who discovers the wonders and terrors of motherhoodone hilarious crisis at a time. For new moms, potential moms-to-be, and anyone who just wants to (wisely) live the experience vicariouslyNew mom Joy McGuire hasnt changed her sweatpants since her baby was born. Of course shes crazy about her newborn son; its her distracted, work-obsessed husband and his impossible mother she cant stand. Joy turns to her own mom for support, but shes too busy planning her fourth wedding to a suspicious self-help guru. Sure, Joys a woman on the brink, but its nothing a little sleep, sanity, and chocolate cant fix.Until her old college boyfriend shows up at their ten-year reunion. The one she was still in love with when she married her husband. It must be the lack of sleep, because Joy is starting to think she might have ended up with the wrong man. Not to mention shes obsessed with her sexy yoga instructor, who might just be interested in her. Joy used to be single, skinny, and able to speak in complete sentences, but who is she now? As shes trying to figure that out, her husband goes missing.Frank, bawdy, and full of keenly self-aware observations, this novel tells the story of one new mother, three men, one marriage, and the baby love that keeps us up at nightFrom the Trade Paperback edition.