Soldier Sailor

For every mother everywhere, this book is a primal scream of new motherhood. The schizophrenic nature of those early days—when you're bursting with love for this little creature, but also dying inside from exhaustion and trying to figure out who you are in the world now—is brought to acute life as a mother recounts those early years as a bedtime story for her son. With a strained marriage to a clueless husband who doesn’t understand what his wife now does all day, her inability to concentrate on work, a lack of people she feels she can connect with, and the feeling that anyone—literally ANYONE—would be a better mother than her, every mother I know will feel SEEN by this novel.