A review by suzettra
Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do by Wednesday Martin

I bought this book when it first came out and have been ignoring it on my shelf ever since. I actually don't know what I was thinking when I bought it because I'm totally uninterested in self-help books and especially in this arena, I don't want to read someone elses advice that will make me angry. Thankfully, this book is not a self help book, but a cultural, literary and historical survey of the role of step mothers in cultural memory as well as research about step families and it is exactly what I need to be reading with a fourteen year old stepdaughter living in my home. I think this is a when the student is ready, they will find the teacher moment for me.