Planting Dandelions

Introducing a writer with a keen eye a wicked tongue and an appealing take on family. . In the family of Jen Lancaster and Elizabeth Gilbert Kyran Pittman is the laid-back middle sister: warm and witty and confiding with an addictively smart and genuine voice-but married with three kids and living in the heartland. Relatable and real she writes about family in a way that highlights all its humor while at the same time honoring its depth. . A regular contributor to Good Housekeeping Pittman is well loved because she is funny and honest and self-deprecating because her own household is in chaos (semi-domesticated) and because she inspires readers in their own domestic lives. In these eighteen linked chronological essays Pittman covers the first twelve years of becoming a family writing candidly and hilariously about things like learning to maintain a marriage over time; dealing with the challenges of sex after childbirth; saying good-bye to her younger self and embracing the still attractive forty-year-old version; and trying to recession- proof her family (i.e. downsize to avoid foreclosure). . From a fresh new talent celebrating the joys and trials of a new generation of parents Planting Dandelions is an entertaining tribute to choosing the white-picket fence over the other options available even if you don't manage to live up to its ideals every day.