Author: Mary F. Pols
2 past events. Secret Garden Books: Mary Pols, Accidentally on Purpose (June 19 at 18:30) Mary F. Pols , Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made. He was unemployed, seemingly aimless, and 10 years younger than she. Definitely not boyfriend material. She’d come out to the bar with friends that night fully prepared to end up on their couch, but there she was, leaving the bar with him, going back to his place, finding a condom, and realizing the ... (more)next morning that it had stayed, unopened, on the floor. At 39, intellectual, solo-flying, and nearly broke, Mary Pols got pregnant.Despite many obstacles--not the least of which is the shock of her Irish Catholic family--Mary perseveres and even manages to create a true friendship with the father of her child. With wry and funny prose, Mary takes us from the first drunken night to the first diaper change in this hip and honest story of unconventional motherhood.Mary Pols is a film critic for several Bay Area papers, including the Contra-Costa Times and Oakland Tribune. She was a Knight Fellow at Stanford in 2005-2006 and teaches part-time at U.C. Berkeley. Her son Dolan is nearly four years old.
Added by booksense. Queen Anne Books: Mary Pols: ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE (June 22 at 15:00) Mary F. Pols , Accidentally on Purpose: A One-Night Stand, My Unplanned Parenthood, and Loving the Best Mistake I Ever Made. At thirty-nine, movie critic Mary Pols knew she wanted to have a baby. But never—not in a million years—on her own. To take on the physical, emotional, and financial challenges of motherhood without a perfect soul mate/husband would be absurd, kind of like not bothering to use a condom during a one-night ... (more)stand with an adorable but jobless guy ten years her junior...
Pols spends the ensuing weeks despairing over everything, from the financial nightmare of single motherhood to the end of her hopes for a traditional life. Not the least of her worries is finding the right way to drop the bombshell on loved ones, including her five siblings and eighty-four-year-old father, who has a German temper and an Irish Catholic attitude toward babies out of wedlock. Yet faced with the frightening, lonely truth that this might be her only chance at motherhood, she plunges ahead with the pregnancy and an Odd Couple version of a co-parenting relationship that looks like one more disaster in a long line of romantic disappointments. But even as she tries to give her son’s young father a radical makeover, she realizes that his devotion and love for their child matters more than his spotty résumé or his inability to remember to put oil in the car. With humor, insight, and compelling honesty, Pols reveals what it means to compromise in the name of love and to find joy in an accidental life, suddenly brimming with purpose.
Meet the author at a reading, signing and reception at Queen Anne Books on Sunday June 22 at 3:00!
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