Fearless and fierce, clear-sighted and unforgiving. I enjoyed following Roiphe's thoughts and ideas leaning towards the unconventional and liked what she said. I'm no single mum myself but something in her exhortations of "love childs" strangely made me wish I was. She is given to quote from all sorts of intriguing sources, which made my to-be-read-list even longer. I fear Roiphe is right in her observation that we are all leading too well-kempt and ironed-out lives, all in order to fit the norm, instead of leading lives that fulfill our inner selves and going fearlessly where no one else has ventured before.