Ayelet Waldman
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December 11, 1964
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
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2017
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Red Hook Road
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2010
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29 editions
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Love & Treasure
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2014
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Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
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2006
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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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2009
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25 editions
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Daughter's Keeper
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2003
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Nursery Crimes (A Mommy-Track Mystery, #1)
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2000
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17 editions
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The Big Nap (A Mommy-Track Mystery #2)
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2001
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8 editions
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A Playdate With Death (A Mommy-Track Mystery #3)
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2002
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7 editions
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Death Gets A Time-Out (A Mommy-Track Mystery #4)
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2003
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“Even if i'm setting myself up for failure, I think it's worth trying to be a mother who delights in who her children are, in their knock-knock jokes and earnest questions. A mother who spends less time obseessing about what will happen, or what has happened, and more time reveling in what is. A mother who doesn't fret over failings and slights, who realizes her worries and anxieties are just thoughts, the continuous chattering and judgement of a too busy mind. A mother who doesn't worry so much about being bad or good but just recognizes that she's both, and neither. A mother who does her best, and for whom that is good enough, even if, in the end, her best turns out to be, simply, not bad. ”
― Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
― Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
“Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?”
― Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
― Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
“Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.”
― Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
― Love and Other Impossible Pursuits
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