Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the best, most awful job.The Best, Most Awful Job brings together twenty bold and brilliant women to speak about motherhood in all its raw, heart-wrenching, gloriously impossible forms.Overturning assumptions, breaking down myths and shattering stereotypes, these writers challenge our perceptions of what it means to be a mother - and ask you to listen.

**THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and acc...

This luxurious volume—the fourth in a series by Louis K. Meisel—is a comprehensive documentation of 21st-century Photorealism, one of the most popular art movements since the late 1960s. Photorealists work painstakingly from photographs to create startlingly realistic paintings, and where they once used film for gathering information, they now rely on digital technology, which has vastly expanded the amount of detail that can be captured. In these visual marvels they bring insights to vern...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin"Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to who they were born to be and not who ...

“A beautiful and honest reflection on caregiving in all its rewards and complexity. Katherine May gives voice to the array of emotions so many caregivers experience but often feel unable to say out loud.” — Emma Heming Willis, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Journey**From the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, a radical reimagining of care: the work we resist and resent, b...

**THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“Katherine May opens up exactly what I and so many need to hear but haven't known how to name.” —Krista Tippett, On Being“Every bit as beautiful and healing as the season itself. . . . This is truly a beautiful book.” —Elizabeth Gilbert"Proves that there is grace in letting go, stepping back and giving yourself time to repair in the dark...May is a clear-eyed observer and her language is steady, honest and acc...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER“When I tell you that I dogeared almost every page in this book, I'm telling God's honest truth. I didn't know how much I needed someone else to validate what I was going through. The sense that I had lost my curiosity, my imagination, my ability to make meaning.” – NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin"Such a teacher for every single person who is trying to live closer to who they were born to be and not who ...

“A beautiful and honest reflection on caregiving in all its rewards and complexity. Katherine May gives voice to the array of emotions so many caregivers experience but often feel unable to say out loud.” — Emma Heming Willis, New York Times bestselling author of The Unexpected Journey**From the New York Times bestselling author of Wintering and Enchantment, a radical reimagining of care: the work we resist and resent, b...