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MOMMIES WHO DRINK
Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom

Warner Books Hardcover
Publication date: August 10, 2006
Price: $23.99
256 pages

ISBN#: 0-446-57873-8

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MOMMIES WHO DRINK
Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom

Brett Paesel

“It gets our vote for one of the summer's best titles.”
--Entertainment Weekly

“What’s pleasurable about Paesel is her self-deprecating, sometimes raunchy wit and her nonjudgmental attitude toward her peers…Paesel, unlike other recent mother-writers of note, actually seems to like women.”
--ELLE

Join Brett Paesel and her friends at happy hour every Friday as they try to reconcile modern motherhood with their carefree pasts: planning, for instance, to do cocaine again, only to discover that they don’t have a babysitter, or worse, the energy to put the evening together. MOMMIES WHO DRINK: Sex, Drugs, and Other Distant Memories of an Ordinary Mom (Warner Hardcover Books; August 2006; $23.99; 0-446-57873-8) is a collection of true stories drawn from the author’s own experiences, and explores the common bond that either unites women in friendship or polarizes them in wildly opposing camps. 

Sex and the City meets Desperate Housewives in MOMMIES WHO DRINK, this dark and wickedly hilarious account of modern motherhood and leaving a carefree past behind. Paesel takes the reader through prenatal yoga classes with a celebrity guru, the purse party of a famous friend, and the dull playgroup where she fantasizes about graphic sex while the other mothers discuss their toddlers’ eating habits.  With a voice that’s real and poignant, Paesel speaks to all women who are braving the new world of motherhood, where the secret question on their minds at the playground is, “what time of the day is too early to start drinking?” 

As an actress in Hollywood, Paesel lives a life that is at once unusual – she once appeared naked in an episode of HBO’s Six Feet Under – yet, like any parent, deeply ordinary.   Her piercing wit and ability to see the humor in the everyday adventures of motherhood will appeal to all mothers--or anyone that knows one. 

About the Author:
Brett Paesel is an actress who has most recently appeared with Larry David on Curb Your Enthusiasm and on Six Feet Under. She was also a regular cast member of Mr. Show on HBO. She has written about motherhood for various publications, including Hip Mama, Literarymama.com, and Brain, Child, and is also a regular contributor to Violet.  MOMMIES WHO DRINK has been optioned by HBO, where it is being developed as a TV series.  Paesel is a married mother of two and lives in Los Angeles.

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