Book Review: I Smile Back

Authors

Melanie Springer Mock, George Fox UniversityFollow

Document Type

Book Review

Publication Date

2008

Abstract

Excerpt: "When Amy Koppelman published her first novel in 2003, critics heralded her work as a “smart, sensitive first novel” that would be “life-changing” for its readers. In A Mouthful of Air, Koppelman dealt honestly and brutally with the subject of postpartum depression, a disease—she reported in a 2003 interview—affecting 50 to 80 percent of new mothers. Koppelman’s premiere novel offered a departure from others in the mommy-lit. genre, a darker glimpse into the underworld of parenting and away from what one reader called the “now-hackneyed Mothers Struggling and Juggling Babies and Hedge Funds story line.” "

Comments

Originally published on Curled Up With A Good Book at www.curledup.com. © Melanie Springer Mock, 2008.

http://www.curledup.com/akismile.htm

Recommended Citation

Mock, Melanie Springer, "Book Review: I Smile Back" (2008). Faculty Publications - Department of English. 109.
https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/eng_fac/109