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Momzillas / Jill Kargman.
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- ISBN: 9780767924788 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0767924789 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: 282 p. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, c2007.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2007 February #2
When Hannah Allen's husband's job brings them from San Francisco to Manhattan, she's ill prepared for life as a Park Avenue mother. In this land of elite pre-preschools, pacifier consultants, and children's birthday parties held in hotel ballrooms, gossip and competitive bragging are the pastimes of choice. Hannah finds herself struggling to feel at home and make new friends, and jabs from her snobby mother-in-law aren't helping matters. Kargman offers a voyeuristic view of the good life and its bad side in a novel that is entertaining but also insubstantial, peppered with pop-culture references and enough lingo and cute abbreviations to necessitate a glossary. However, Momzillas does mark the rise of a new trend in contemporary fiction: mom lit. Building on the success of tot-filled tomes like The Nanny Diaries (2002) and Little Earthquakes (2004), the fiction of singledom is giving way to the fiction of motherhood, and readers are snapping these books up. ((Reviewed February 15, 2007)) Copyright 2007 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2007 February #1
West Coast transplant does battle with Manhattan's über-momsâKargman's first solo after co-authoring two books with Carrie Karasyov (Wolves in Chic Clothing, 2005, etc.).When Hannah Foster's husband, Josh, announces he's been offered a dream job in New York City, Hannah supports him completelyâeven if it means uprooting her two-year-old daughter, Violet, and leaving behind her close-knit group of San Francisco friends. Hannah dutifully packs up their home and heads cross-country. Despite the sterile temporary apartment, Hannah's determined to make the move work for her family and give Violet an amazing New York experience. Josh, a native New Yorker, won't have time to help Hannah transition into this strange world. The best he can do is to connect Hannah with a high-school chum, Beeânow the queen of the "momzillas," or New York's elite mothers. These size-two gals inhabit Manhattan's Upper East Side and make it their mission to look flawless while rearing the next generation of Ivy Leaguers. Perfectly groomed and hyper-connected within New York society, Bee and her cohorts can make or break Hannah's acceptance into this world of $18,000 private preschools. Hannah's Nine Inch Nails concert tees and Converse sneakers don't mesh with cashmere twin sets and pearls, but since Hannah wants the very best for Violet, she's willing to play their game. Making her way in this alien world where moms outsource the dirty work isn't a snap, and the outwardly helpful Bee has it in for Hannah. Navigating the playground politics of this privileged crowd nearly breaks Hannah's spirit. Fortunately, she's able to shake off her naïveté and claim the city in her own way.The author has strong ideas but relies too heavily on acronyms and abbreviations and fails to create a multidimensional villain. Still, a decent effort that debunks the myth of the perfect mommy. Copyright Kirkus 2007 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2007 January #1
Kargman is no worse off without writing partner Carrie Karasyov (The Right Address ; Wolves in Chic Clothing ) in her first solo novel, a breezy jaunt through the Manhattan nursery grinder. Recently relocated to the Upper East Side from San Francisco after her husband, Josh, took a lucrative job, Hannah Allen is thrown into the mommy snake pit by her domineering mother-in-law, Lila Allen Dillingham, who introduces Hannah to a cabal of neighborhood moms led by the "drop dead gorgissima" Bee Elliott. Hannah, a black-jeans-and-Converse art history grad and mother of too-cute two-year-old Violet, struggles to please Lila and keep up with Bee's hypercompetitive crew of "Kelly-bag-toting, Chanel-suit-wearing, Bugaboo-pushing sharks" who fret over their children's head circumferences and admissions into pre-preschools with three-year waiting lists. There's no shortage of name-dropping and light humor as Hannah struggles to win a co-op board's approval, keep her marriage afloat and get Violet into Carnegie Nursery School. Though a bevy of "awky" abbreviations litter the narrative ("unfortch" "sitch," "actsch"), Kargman writes with verve. Fans of the genre won't be disappointed. (Apr.)
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