You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman: Diary of an New (Older) Mother

by Judith Newman

Book Overview

Written with great wit, this is the brutally honest and hilarious memoir froman over-forty first-time mom. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401351891
• ISBN13: 9781401351892
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Hyperion Books
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Henry and Gus claim soul in the lost and found!!!!!!!!!!!

I loved reading this book, finally a woman who has the strength and courage to be so brutally honest about her struggle to become a mother later in life. Ms. Newman displays her amazing character and humor page after page. She reminds all of us no matter how many obstacles we encounter in our lives we must never give up if it is important to us. I find the book inspiring and impressive that Ms. Newman can re-visit her emotional journey to motherhood with her incredible wit.

read this book

this is a wonderful book! funny, touching, intelligent. this book is about becoming a parent, about relationships, about life. it is laugh-out-loud funny. unfortunately i have finished reading it and now i'm just waiting for ms. newman to finish the next book.

page turning laughter at its best

When a book's acknowledgments make me laugh, it's a very good sign. Read on, the laughs continue. Not just on every page, but in every paragraph. Newman's funny, honest, and poignant tale of an "older" woman's plunge into motherhood, is the kind of book you tell your friends *and* your enemies about - because you just can't help yourself. I'm so glad I alphabetize my books by author so Newman can take her rightful place before David Rakoff, David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell.

A Tale to Treasure

I'm a longtime fan of Judith Newman's magazine writing and fell in love with her twin sons, Henry and Gus, through her columns in Ladies Home Journal, so I knew I'd enjoy this book. What surprised me was how intensely I loved it. I knew it would be funny--very funny--but I didn't expect parts of it to make me teary. This isn't a good book, it's a superb one. Buy it now so when people are talking about it--and they will be--you'll be able to nod your head and say: "I know JUST what you mean-- and didn't you also love the part where Henry..."

I laughed, I cried, I loved this Book

Evocative of Heartburn, Nora Ephron's masterpiece about being an older mother with an ambivalent spouse and evolving literary career, Newman's book is a bittersweet look at trying to be a mother and wife of an exentric and interesting husband, John. The book is not treacly or preachy, but Newman writes heartbreaking passages of warmth and wisdom. It is not a comedy, but I lauged out loud dozens of times. The book is heartfelt, moving amd excellently written. I would heartly recomend this book, not only to anyone who is a mom and wife, but for anyone who enjoyed "Heartburn."