Essays From a Working Parent on the Edge — sharp, funny, and painfully honest dispatches from the front lines of working parenthood.
Essays From a Working Parent on the Edge — sharp, funny, and painfully honest dispatches from the front lines of working parenthood.
Between the daycare pickups, the endless Slack notifications, and the Goldfish crackers ground into every keyboard, Maria Tanner has had it — and she's writing it all down. A hilarious, cathartic essay collection for every parent clocking in twice: once for the job, and once for the kids who never stop needing you.
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Maria Tanner is the daughter of Ukrainian refugees who built a life from scratch — and she's spent her career doing the same, one deadline at a time. By day, she works in digital marketing; by night (and nap time, and the back seat of a minivan), she writes essays about the chaos of raising twin toddler girls while trying to keep a career intact.
She lives with her husband, her daughters, and two rescue dogs who have never once respected a work call. Per My Last Nerve is her first essay collection.