518:. The book argues that no woman can be a perfect mother, that, in fact, competitive, neurotic parenting and having unrealistic expectations may be damaging to children. Waldman contends that society (particularly women, in what she calls the "Bad Mother police") are too hard on other women's parenting skills. The book includes chapters on women's criticism of the mothering by other women, feminism, motherhood, and associated anxieties, including anxieties about breastfeeding, marriage, sexuality of mothers and teenagers, homework, mental illness, the loss of her unborn child, and her relationship with her mother-in-law. The book was a
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expose myself and at the same time be so hypersensitive. Those are two contradictory impulses no one person should have." After an incident where she hinted at suicidal thoughts, she decided to discontinue the blog. Although she found it a therapeutic way to channel frustrations – likening the experience to "slashing my wrists and haemorrhaging all over the computer screen" – she found it was having a deleterious effect on her writing. Waldman blogged on the 2008 Democratic
National Convention and had a blog on her own website from 2008 to 2009 on a variety of subjects.
332:, Berkeley from 1997 to 2003. She also worked as a consultant to the Drug Policy Alliance, a resource center advocating a drug policy based on harm reduction. While working as an adjunct professor, she found writing scholarly articles uninteresting and intimidating, so she began writing fiction instead. According to Waldman, her fiction is "all about being a bad mother." Waldman said she would not return to the legal profession. In her fiction Waldman has drawn extensively on her legal experience.
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380:, published in 2003, drew on Waldman's experience as a criminal defense lawyer and representation of drug offenders. The first manuscript was rejected thirty-one times. It features a young woman, Olivia, who inadvertently becomes involved in the trafficking of drugs and her relationship with her emotionally reserved mother. The book is also about the impact of federal drug policy, particularly
866:, July 24, 2005. Accessed November 18, 2017. "Waldman said she's always felt somewhat like an outsider. Born in Israel -- where her parents moved after they married and she lived for her first two years -- she spent most of her childhood in Ridgewood, N.J., an affluent town about 25 miles but a world away from New York City."
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of having to make professional sacrifices. Her essays have also explored the sexuality of mothers and of young people, homework, extended family life, body image, aging, literary hoaxes, and Jewish life. Although most of her nonfiction is personal, she has also written on aspects of the criminal justice system.
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Waldman has written many personal essays for online and print publications aspects of motherhood, such as how women criticize each other's mothering (that is, the "mommy wars"), combining paid work with motherhood, and how the upbringing of those raised in a postfeminist era clashed with the reality
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In 1997, Waldman started writing mystery novels, thinking they would be "easy … light and fluffy." At first she wrote in secret, then with her husband's encouragement. She has said that she chose mysteries because they are primarily about plot. Waldman has said that her first mystery work, eventually
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Waldman has written various online and print articles about mothering while at home on maternity leave after the birth of her first child and again after she left her job as a public defender. She has at various times said that she chose to write because it was not as time-consuming a career as the
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in its most obscene flowering. But it's necessary. As a parent your days are consumed by other people's needs. This is payback for driving back and forth to gymnastics all week long." On her reaction to the criticism that her blogging engendered, she has said "It's ridiculous to be so willing to
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Waldman wrote seven novels about the "part-time sleuth and full-time mother" Juliet
Applebaum. Waldman has said of Juliet, "She is me, well, she was me," and "They say to write what you know … so I wrote exactly what I knew." Like Waldman, Juliet is a 5-foot-tall (1.5 m), red-headed former
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Waldman "is wielding her powers of provocation to goad us into an uncomfortable but necessary conversation. Quibble with her style, her methods, her desire to attract attention. In normalizing the conversation about LSD, she may one day help others feel normal."
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in Israel for a year while in the tenth grade. She has said that her parents were atheists, but very Jewish, and that her "whole life was immersed in
Judaism, but in a very specific kind of Labor–Zionist Judaism." Despite this, she did not celebrate becoming a
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public defender with a nocturnal writer for a husband, who has become a stay-at-home mother but finds it boring. To relieve her boredom, Juliet works as a part-time detective. The collective title of the series is
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law, because it gave her something to do during naptimes, it kept her entertained, because she was starved of someone to laugh at her jokes and because it gave her a way of putting off going back to work.
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and four other novels. She has also written autobiographical essays about motherhood. Waldman spent three years working as a federal public defender and her fiction draws on her experience as a lawyer.
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For a short time in 2004 and 2005, Waldman wrote a blog under the title "Bad Mother." Her topics included sexuality, gay rights, motherhood, and her bipolar disorder. She said "A blog like this is
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290:. The couple work from the same office in the backyard of their home. They edit each other's work, and offer each other advice on writing, sometimes going on "plot walks" to discuss issues.
384:, on the criminal justice system. The novel was inspired by a case Waldman handled. The book was generally well received and was a finalist for the 2003 Northern California Book Award.
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858:"Ayelet, Unfiltered / Berkeley writer Ayelet Waldman's bald honesty about putting her husband first made her a magnet for controversy. Would she take any of it back?"
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Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race and Themselves
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is likely to be the last, but her agent's website notes that she is working on more mysteries.
2233:"Ayelet Waldman's blog relating to the 2008 Presidential Election at New York Magazine (2008)"
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A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
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Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace
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1884:"Renowned Authors Learn About Occupation Firsthand in Breaking the Silence Tour"
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2045:"Who's your (bad) mother? Ayelet Waldman takes on the art of mothering"
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family, attended Hebrew school and Jewish summer camps, and lived on a
1220:"Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman on parenting with a mental illness"
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1627:, New York Magazine, January 8, 2006. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
1429:, Harvard Magazine, March–April 2003. (Retrieved on August 27, 2010.)
1396:, Hot Metal Bridge, February 5, 2007. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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1575:, New York Times, February 12, 2006. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
2208:, New York Times, January 30, 2005. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
1986:, United States Today, May 1, 2009. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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1637:"The Ayelet Waldman interview: slightly less than twenty questions"
1443:"The Bad Mommy: Ayelet Waldman takes the heat and keeps on writing"
1175:"Ayelet Waldman on writing Jewish characters and raising daughters"
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1588:, Washington Post, February 12, 2006. (Retrieved August 25, 2010.)
1546:, Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2010. (Retrieved August 25, 2010.)
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Her 2005 essay "Motherlove" was first published in the anthology
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when he met her mother, Ricki. After they married, they moved to
2193:"Ayelet Waldman's old "Bad Mother" blog on blogspot (2004–2005)"
2047:, The Huffington Post, May 6, 2009. (Retrieved August 25, 2010.)
1468:, Tribune Review, February 12, 2006.(Retrieved August 27, 2010.)
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Don Roos wrote and directed a film based on the novel, starring
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Writer Ayelet Waldman on how microdosing LSD changed her life
1849:, Tablet, September 29, 2004. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
1161:, Boldtype, RandomHouse.com, 2000. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
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was published in January 2017 and documents Waldman's taking
2067:, Oregon Live.com, May 8, 2009. (Retrieved August 25, 2010.)
2009:, USA Today, April 29, 2009. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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campaign, Waldman campaigned and raised funds in support of
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1658:, Variety, August 13, 2009. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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2007:"Ayelet Waldman: Precipitating the mother of all uproars"
1984:"Ayelet Waldman: Precipitating the mother of all uproars"
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bestseller, and generally it received favorable reviews.
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Waldman has contributed short stories to the anthologies
1671:, New York Times, July 30, 2010. Retrieved on 2010-08-20
1394:"Super-secret Michael Chabon & Ayelet Waldman visit"
1201:"Author information: Ayelet Waldman", Internet Book List
1142:"Truth or dare: Ayelet Waldman makes love – and enemies"
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since 1993. They live in a 1907 Craftsman house in the
2080:, New York Times, May 7, 2000. Retrieved on 2010-08-20
1775:, NPR, March 20, 2009. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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How LSD 'Microdosing' Saved Ayelet Waldman's Marriage
2351:"Chabon and Waldman: The Couple That Kvells Together"
2308:"'Star Trek: Picard' Names Michael Chabon Showrunner"
1715:"Coping: how tragedy forced two families to carry on"
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McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories
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Many characters in her fiction are Jewish. Her novel
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1773:"Sexy witch or cereal box: which is your teen girl"
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1818:, Harper's Bazaar. (Retrieved on August 25, 2010.)
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1339:, Literary momma.(Retrieved on August 27, 2010.)
1599:"Love of her life comes with a 5-year-old boy "
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1122:"Maternal ambivalence is Ayelet Waldman's baby"
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448:" organization, initiated the production of an
2245:"Blog on Ayelet Waldman's website (2008–2009)"
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975:"Lunch with Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman"
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847:, October 22, 2003. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
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2415:"Podcast: 'Bad Mother' Author Ayelet Waldman"
2032:"Is this woman a bad mother, or just honest?"
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1612:"Love and other impossible pursuits"
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1682:"Ayelet Waldman's 'Red Hook Road'"
1243:"An Interview with Ayelet Waldman"
1049:"Meet the writers: Ayelet Waldman"
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