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Product Details
Publisher: GFB
Release Date: April 15, 2025
Formats: Paperback, Ebook
ISBN: PB: 978-1-964721-82-8; EB: 978-1-964721-81-1
Trim: 5.5 x 8.5
Page Count: 354
This Is What Parenting Feels Like
Sue Dvorak
In this rollicking and poignant narrative about the beauty and mess of everyday parenting life in all its stages, readers are immersed in stories that reflect pieces of their own lives—perfect for fans of Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions and Jennifer Senior’s All Joy and No Fun.
This is not a book about how to parent. Instead, this is a book about being one.
In a uniquely fresh and honest voice, Sue Dvorak—herself a mother of six grown children—captures the minute details and full emotional arc of parenthood. In essays, poetry and vignettes that are at once humorous and heartbreaking, Dvorak brings to life the many stages of parenting along with their accompanying joys and indignities, from babyhood to graduation and beyond, when roles reverse and adult children begin to care for their own aging parents.
Encompassing a full mosaic of the weird, joyous, banal, sickening and hilarious moments of everyday parenting life, Apparently celebrates the wonder of being a parent, growing and learning alongside your children.
This is what parenting feels like.
About the Author
Sue Dvorak is a small-town girl who moved to the city, becoming a physiotherapist, a wife and a mother—eventually of six. Spending years wrestling with her children and the goal of living in the moment, Sue has a fondness for involving herself in things that tend not to pay but are otherwise rewarding. She lives in British Columbia with her husband, Marcel, an orthopaedic spine surgeon. Their children are the sort of people you’d lean on in a bind: a civil litigation lawyer, an entrepreneur physicist, an infants’ child- and youth-care worker, a student of veterinary medicine, a business startup team member and a nearly graduated biological environmental scientist.