Momzillas

by Jill Kargman

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The mothers on Manhattan's chic Upper East Side are highly educated, extremely wealthy, and very competitive. They throw themselves and all of their energy and resources into full-time child rearing, turning their kids into the unwitting pawns in a game where success is measured in precocious achievements, jam-packed schedules, and elite private-school pedigrees. Hannah Allen has recently moved to the neighborhood with her New York City-bred investment banker husband and their two-year-old show more daughter, Violet. She's immediately inundated by an outpouring of advice from her not-so-well-intentioned new friends and her overbearing, socially conscious mother-in-law, who coach her on matters ranging from where to buy the must-have $300 baby dress to how to get into the only pre-pre-preschool that counts. Despite her better instincts and common sense, Hannah soon finds herself caught up in the competitive whirl of high-stakes mothering. show less

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I was under no impression that this was going to be a great work of literature. I knew it was suppose to be a funny, quick read about a mom trying to fit in with the high society moms of New York. However, I couldn’t even enjoy this as just a simple comedy because the main character is so unlikeable. She portrays the other moms as mean spirited and only concerned with superficial, silly things- yet she herself constantly uses words like ‘awky’, ‘natch’, ‘diff’, ‘mag’, and, possibly the worst, ‘neighb’. In the end, everyone in this book was annoying.
I really liked this book. It really gave me an insight into how the world of New York socialite moms work, where kids are just the latest accessory. I really liked the fish-out-of-water perspective.
This was really cute, although a bit predictable. Some of the "slang" was a little irritating and I hated their dumb porn movie names. There was zero point to that....But it was a nice, light read!
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OMG. So very bad. I skimmed the last 4 chapters or so, because I couldn't take it. I thought it would be a fun, cheesy read, but it was just not an interesting story. Maybe it's because I had already been a stay-at-home mama for a few years before I read it, but I just couldn't relate to the main character and her city lifestyle. PASS.
This was a fun, light read and offers good perspective on the "Mommy Wars."

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Jill Kargman is an author, writer, and actor based in New York City's Upper East Side. She was born in 1974 in New York City. Kargman appears as a satirical version of herself in a Bravo scripted comedy television show called Odd Mom Out. The show is written by her and based on her novel Momzillas. Her book, Sometimes I Feel Like a Nut: Essays and show more Observations was published in 2011. In 2015 it became listed as a New York Times bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.6Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English2000-
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PS3611 .A783 .M66Language and LiteratureAmerican literature
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