Non-Fiction: Bad Mommy by Willow Yamauchi

Prior to the birth of our children, we are given to believe that, while motherhood may not be a walk in the park, exactly, some instinctive something will kick in when the time comes and we’ll know what to do. Willow Yamauchi (Adult Child of Hippies) doesn’t believe that.

“The cruel truth,” Yamauchi warns in the introduction to Bad Mommy (Insomniac Press), “is being a good mommy is pretty much