The Girlfriend Mom
Book Feature - The Girlfriend Mom by Dani Alpert
Book Feature - The Girlfriend Mom by Dani Alpert
HBL Note: I love a good memoir for the same reason that I gravitate toward historical fiction. I like reading about real people and the real lives they led. This book sounds like a delight and the author sounds hysterical. Every mother makes mistakes, but imagine being a live-in girlfriend of a divorced father of two. When I read that she donated to the Alzheimer’s Foundation as the kids’ Christmas gifts I snorted sparkling water out of my nose. I mean, that is a hilarious mistake to make as a new “girlfriend mom.” Scroll down to read more about Dani Alpert’s story.
Book Feature - The Girlfriend Mom by Dani Alpert
From the publisher:
After tap-dancing through life as a childfree woman, Dani fell in love with a divorced dad of two and stepped into the amorphous role of a parent’s live-in significant other—or babysitter without compensation. Presented with a Whitman’s Sampler of motherhood, she made rookie mistakes, like leaving the 11-year-old alone in the house while running to CVS for raisins and donating to the Alzheimer’s Foundation as the kids’ Christmas gifts.
Seven years in, Dani got her bearings and sunk deeper into her semi-parenting, surprising herself and those around her. She kept Nicole’s teenage secrets, whistled while she laundered Tyler’s athletic supporter, and anointed herself “the Girlfriend Mom.”
Book Feature - The Girlfriend Mom by Dani Alpert
