Lindsey Mead

Fiction The Gap Year By Sarah Bird Knopf, 2011 Reviewed by Lindsey Mead The Gap Year is a laugh-out-loud funny book about motherhood’s rawest and most difficult task: letting go. That Sarah Bird manages to make a story about such a profoundly emotional topic hilarious is a testament to her brilliant writing. In The Gap […]

As a mother watching her eight year old daughter hurtle headlong into tweendom, with its requisite obsessions with Katy Perry and jeggings, I read Cinderella Ate My Daughter eagerly, my enthusiasm tinged with a faint but beseeching desire to be told what to do. Peggy Orenstein’s compelling (and alarming) book addresses the culture in which […]