The Mother

"This is a truly beautiful and special book."--Emily Oster, author of Expecting Better and Cribsheet

"Searching, honest, funny, and beautiful." --Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

"I laugh-sobbed my way through The Mother, so loudly my children came to check on me." --Angela Garbes, author of Essential Labor and Like a Mother

In this hilarious and harrowingly honest graphic memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Rachel Deutsch, aka @weirdmomart on Instagram, shares the story of her journey into motherhood.

Rachel Deutsch had always wanted a baby. She wanted to press her face into theirs and feed them from her body. Eventually her child might hate her a little. But they'd be on speaking terms most of the time. Wait...or was that just Rachel's experience with her mom? Had she processed her own childhood enough to raise a child herself ?

The Mother is about the constant dualities and contradictions of motherhood. The collision of future Rachel and past Rachel. Desperately wanting to get pregnant while fearful of being pregnant. Loving a new identity while missing an old one. Celebrating a new family while mourning the previous incarnation of a partnership.

Funny, provocative, and unabashedly candid, Deutsch's memoir embraces both the joys and the challenges of modern parenthood in a way that will resonate with new and seasoned parents.