I Lost Everything In The Post-Natal Depression (1995) - Plot & Excerpts
When I had my first child 30 years ago my mother gave me some Erma Bombeck books to read. I could hardly breathe for laughing so hard. I loved them. But I don't think I've read Erma Bombeck since then, until now.I guess I must be a very different person now than I was then. I didn't find this funny, just laughed a couple of times. Instead I cried over the section titled "I've always loved you best" which are letters to her children, and "Flag" in which she discusses what our flag means to us. In some ways it is an outdated book (so much talk about bored housewives) but often this visit to the past made me nostalgic, for example remembering how much my mother loved All in the Family, and particularly Edith Bunker. So kind of a sad book for me but I'm glad that I had a chance to revisit Erma Bombeck.
You've got to love an author who finds her mother-in-law to be expendable. "My mother-in-law has finally accepted me for what I am: a mistake. And I have learned to live with her through the miracle of sedation." She looks forward to being an empty-nester so that she can have rumballs before breakfast. An exaggerated, irreverent look at family life by someone who obviously loves her family. Interesting that she refers to herself as a housewife, not as a writer, despite being a columnist and a book author.
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