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Stay-at-Home Mother and Phone Rings

: She is a successful author, according to The Chronicle Herald. She is a stay-at-home mother to a feisty, mobile toddler, and when her phone rings, displaying her mother number, her mind spirals into an untangling frenzy of imagined possible conversations. She deletes the writers festival invitation she received via email, and plays wallflower to the online social world by leaving messages from her friends and family unopened. She lets voice mail pick it up. Normal. In the first few pages of Adult Onset, Ann-Marie Mac Donald most recent book, this painted picture of modern mommy-hood is Mary Rose everyday world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.