"Motherhood is like Albania - you can't trust the brochures, you have to go there." This is what Marni Jackson discovered when her son was born nine years ago. An acclaimed writer and journalist accustomed to reporting on her adventures in exotic locales, she set about exploring what she calls "The Mother Zone"--A rich and secretive territory that was, until now, unmapped. Like every mother before and since, she learned that the experience of having children - not just.

The fatigue and the relentless demands, but surprising new dimensions of fear and love - bears no resemblance to what the child-rearing books describe, or to what other parents report. Even mothers forget; a kind of amnesia settles around those early years with small children. No one seemed to be telling the truth about motherhood, and those lost in the throes of it were all too busy to talk. Marni Jackson has written a breathtakingly honest book that challenges every.

Preconception and popular myth about motherhood. Wonderfully frank, intensely personal, excruciatingly funny, and profoundly moving, The Mother Zone is a travelogue through the mother years in which nothing escapes the reporter's scrutiny, no subject is taboo, and feminism is taken into the future.