I meant to write this several weeks ago, before Mother's Day, but I've had trouble sitting down to try and put into words what this book meant to me. I picked it up last fall when it was new. The flyleaf calls it "a memoir of a family in transition" and mentioned children becoming teenagers...
Christopher Buckley usually writes funny, satirical novels ( Supreme Courtship ; Thank You for Smoking ). I have read a few of his novels and enjoyed them. Still, I almost didn't pick up his newest book, Losing Mum and Pup , about the year during which both of his parents died. Writes Buckley: "They...