Book Review: I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson
I Don’t Know How She Does It is a brutally honest story of how a woman balances a family as well as her successful career.
Main character Kate Reddy has everything that women sometimes work their entire lives for—A supportive husband who has no qualms with doing laundry, cleaning up a cluttered house, or cooking dinner, complete with a homemade pesto sauce. She has two young children, a nanny, and is the youngest female, Hedge-fund manager of a prestigious company. But at what price does she pay for being a successful career woman and breadwinner of her family?
Kate Reddy is a workaholic, devoting most of her time to her career. With her very limited time around her own house and late nights up trying to pass off a store-bought pie as homemade, she abruptly realizes that she does not know her two young children and she has become a woman that she, as well as her husband can barely recognize.
When she realizes that her children are not going to be young for long, she begins to weigh her options as well as speak to her closest friend about how she is feeling. Can a full-time working woman also be an attentive and goal-driven mother?
This book is chock-full of humor, honesty, and has easily become The Bible for working mothers.
That sounds like something I could try to read. I’ma check it out next time I’m at the store.
Email holly maybe she’ll share her copy aka my copy hahahaha <3
I read this book a few years ago and still chuckle when I think about it -it’s laugh out loud funny because it is so true!
Required reading I think for all of us working moms out there!