If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother - 9781451674057

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.

Julia Sweeney is a critically acclaimed writer and performer of her one-woman shows, and she also writes brilliant, candid, hilarious essays. The past few years have provided her with some rich material. In her delightful memoir If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother, she writes about adopting a Chinese girl named Mulan (“After the movie?”); The Food Network; her mother-in-law (who candidly reveals a story that most people would keep a secret); knitting; 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.

Described as “a writer and a woman you want to take to your heart” (David Ansen, Newsweek), Julia Sweeney has the unique ability to find that essential thread of human connection and weave it through stories as funny as they are insightful. Whether it’s about nannies, strollers, sex, or religion, Julia always writes with elegant precision, pinning her jokes with razor-sharp observations while articulating feelings that we all share.