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Love Mom

 

by Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose

Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose, creators of the online sensation PostcardsFromYoMomma.com, bring us an alternative to the sickeningly sweet, customary Mother’s Day gifts. LOVE MOM: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home (Hyperion; April 1, 2009; $17.99; Hardcover) is a collection of laugh-out-loud emails, text messages, and instant messages from technologically inept mothers to their adult children. Shafrir and Grose confirm that you are not alone if your mother has ever sent you the entire contents of her email in the subject line or has needed you to explain the complicated inner-workings of AOL Instant Messenger.

 

Moms almost universally go from colonoscopy to casserole recipe in the same email. In LOVE, MOM, Shafrir and Grose share over 200 reader-submitted missives from Mom that cover every subject, from whether or not it’s okay to wear white jeans to the “Top 10 Reasons I Haven't Called You Back.”

 

Shafrir and Grose can discuss:

The ways in which technology has drastically changed communication between mothers and their children

The Do’s and Don’ts of email etiquette

The launch of PostcardsFromYoMomma.com and its rapid rise to popularity

Their experience as self-starting Web gurus

Why she is “just being your mother”

 

Even celebrity moms are not immune to social glitches and grammatical errors. Oscar-winner Diablo Cody’s mom threatens that she and her friends are going to start their own “blob” and Project Runway 4 winner Christian Siriano’s mother pats herself on the back for blessing her son with the same name as Victoria Beckham’s brother.

 

LOVE, MOM combines its cross-generational appeal with gentle humor, revealing the genuine affection shown between mothers and their adult children. Simultaneously sweet and hilarious, LOVE, MOM reminds us all that our mothers are the ones who know us best—and, of course, nag us the most.

 

About Authors:

Doree Shafrir is an editor at the New York Observer and a former editor at Gawker.com. She has also contributed to Slate.

 

Jessica Grose is Managing Editor for Double X, Slate’s site for women, and was formerly an editor at Jezebel.com. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Salon.com, among other places. Both women live in Brooklyn, New York. PostcardsFromYoMomma.com was recently chosen as a finalist for the 12th Annual SXSW Web Awards.

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