Tales From The Crib
Risa Green

Sugar and spice and everything sucks.

Lara Stone is back again, and nine months of being miserably pregnant was nothing compared to how miserable she is now that her baby has actually arrived. But when Lara’s long-estranged dad shows up with a stripper on his arm, her husband begins flirting with a hot twenty-five year old, and her nanny is casting voodoo spells to keep her from losing that last ten pounds, Lara soon finds that sleepless nights, S&M-like pumping bras and a raging case of the post-baby blues are the least of her problems.

With a "bright, edgy, narrator"* and "comedy [that] hits the mark,"** Risa Green’s "uproariously tart"** debut, Notes From the Underbelly, got readers hooked from the first page. As Lara continues with her quest to become a "good" mother, she tries to keep sane among the Gucci- clad Mommunists from her Mommy and Me class, and just when she is certain that she will never figure this nurturing thing out, she finds support in the unlikeliest of places, and comes to understand that — unlike diapering — there’s no right way to love someone...

*Readers Guide included

*Kirkus Reviews
**Booklist
***Entertainment Weekly

NAL Trade, April 2006
ISBN #0451217691
304 pages Trade Size
$12.95