EPISODE · Apr 2, 2013 · 3 MIN
If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother by Julia Sweeney
from Listen to Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, Memoirs · host Gage Glover
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother Author: Julia Sweeney Narrator: Julia Sweeney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Sweeney’s “endearing series of true tales from parenthood’s front lines” (O, The Oprah Magazine) is a funny, smart tour de force that reads like a conversation with your best friend. In these candidly witty and poignant essays, comedienne and writer Julia Sweeney muses on the complex blessings of motherhood: deciding to adopt her daughter, a Chinese girl named Mulan (“After the movie?”); nannies (including the Chinese Pat); being adopted by a dog; and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger who wrote, “Desperately Seeking Sweeney-in-Law.” She recounts how she explained the facts of life to nine-year-old Mulan, a story that became a wildly popular TED talk and YouTube video. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/168446 to listen full audiobooks. Title: If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother Author: Julia Sweeney Narrator: Julia Sweeney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: April 2, 2013 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Saturday Night Live veteran Julia Sweeney’s “endearing series of true tales from parenthood’s front lines” (O, The Oprah Magazine) is a funny, smart tour de force that reads like a conversation with your best friend. In these candidly witty and poignant essays, comedienne and writer Julia Sweeney muses on the complex blessings of motherhood: deciding to adopt her daughter, a Chinese girl named Mulan (“After the movie?”); nannies (including the Chinese Pat); being adopted by a dog; and meeting Mr. Right through an email from a complete stranger who wrote, “Desperately Seeking Sweeney-in-Law.” She recounts how she explained the facts of life to nine-year-old Mulan, a story that became a wildly popular TED talk and YouTube video. But no matter what the topic, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.
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