weldon-motherhood

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/get-real-holiday-snapshots-motherhood-seem/"></div><p>There are a heap of holidays cards accumulated in the past few weeks stacked in the wooden Christmas card basket with the carved Santa and reindeers on the handle. One at the top is postmarked from a nearby suburb; a photo from a smiling mother and father accessorized by impeccably attired grown children. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/get-real-holiday-snapshots-motherhood-seem/#more-6135" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Get Real: Holiday Snapshots of Motherhood Not All They Seem

Michele Weldon is an author, journalist and emerita faculty at Northwestern University. Her most recent book is <em><a href="http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/escape-points-products-9781613733523.php?page_id=21">Escape Points: A Memoir,</a></em> about raising her three sons alone.  