Love, Mom: Poignant, Goofy, Brilliant Messages from Home Book

Sweet, funny, endearing, slightly technologically inept, and always just a little nagging, emails from mothers to their adult children are much more fun to read when it's somebody else's mother. PostcardsFromYoMomma.com is proof of that-when it launched, this repository of reader-submitted missives from Mom received more than 100,000 unique visitors in just the first two weeks. In Love, Mom, editors Doree Shafrir and Jessica Grose have assembled more than two hundred of the best never-before-seen submissions.

From school, sex, technology, and appearance to health, work, holidays, and food-and complete with a selection of celebrity emails (including Oscar-winner Diablo Cody's mom on her daughter's "blob"), and sidebars throughout-Love, Mom is ultimately a reflection on how our moms are always our moms . . . no matter how the message is sent.

Biography

Doree Shafrir is an editor at the New York Observer and a former editor at Gawker.com. She has also contributed to Slate

Jessica Grose is Managing Editor for Double X, Slate's blog for women, and was formerly an editor at Jezebel.com. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Salon.com, among other places.