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All the Mothers
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Welcome to "the mommune."From New York Times bestselling author Domenica Ruta comes a "delightful and honest"* novel about a single mom reimagining what the perfect family can look like."Have you ever gotten screwed over by a man you never cared all that much for to begin with? Join the club. . . . A joyful journey about the trials of motherhood and found family."--Harper's Bazaar* Sandy thought she was making her greatest mistake yet when she got unexpectedly pregnant in her mid-thirties by a dating-app flop. Now, her baby Rosie is the love of her life, but trying to co-parent with her daughter's dad, a wannabe rock star, is a challenge--and seems to be veering into catastrophe territory when Sandy finds out through social media that her daughter has a half-sibling Sandy doesn't know anything about. Enter her ex's ex, Stephanie, the other mother. Sandy is prepared to hate her but when the two women meet, they are shocked to learn how much they have in common beyond the deadbeat father their children share. Now Sandy needs to figure out what her and Rosie's family looks like with all these new additions. Could life in a "mommune" be the answer to her prayers, or just a new brand of chaos? In this winning story of family both born and chosen, Sandy is about to discover that when nothing goes as planned, the best things become possible.
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- ISBN-13: 9780593734056
- ISBN-10: 059373405X
- Publisher: Random House
- Publish Date: May 2025
- Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
- Page Count: 304
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Sandy’s pack of friends knows how to rally around one another. They came together in college, supporting each other as romantic relationships ebbed and flowed. When Sandy snagged the attention of their cute TA, the group text went wild: “further proof that these friends were like sisters, always rooting for her.”
But the support can be somewhat one-note: Into their 20s and early 30s, the group sends “you go girl”-type encouragement even when it’s not the most relevant response. Then things get real for Sandy: Her mother dies, and she handles her grief by social media-stalking her exes. She learns that the man who broke her heart is married, and turns to dating apps for distraction. And then Sandy becomes pregnant.
Quickly, her friendships reveal themselves to be as deep as a kiddie pool. The women’s judgment is obvious as they say things will work out for Sandy eventually—but she believes they’re working out now. Her daughter is a gift, even though the child’s father turns out to be a deadbeat. Sandy realizes she’ll have to face raising a child in New York on her own—until she learns that her daughter has a half sister, and that the child’s mother isn’t Sandy’s competition but her ally.
In All the Mothers, Domenica Ruta, the author of the memoir With or Without You, paints a wholehearted picture of single motherhood, female friendship and trying to hack it in the Big Apple. The women in Sandy’s world are lovable, even as they exhibit their flaws. The mostly absent dad, too, has sympathetic moments in Ruta’s empathic storytelling.
As Sandy navigates the loss of old friendships, she finds something new and deeper in Stephanie, the other mother. Together, the women take on motherhood’s joys and many challenges. At times, Ruta goes overboard with those challenges; so much happens that the book’s final pages are a race to the resolution. But even as storylines multiply, All the Mothers makes room for the families its characters are born into, the families they stumble into and the families they choose.
Sandy’s pack of friends knows how to rally around one another. They came together in college, supporting each other as romantic relationships ebbed and flowed. When Sandy snagged the attention of their cute TA, the group text went wild: “further proof that these friends were like sisters, always rooting for her.”
But the support can be somewhat one-note: Into their 20s and early 30s, the group sends “you go girl”-type encouragement even when it’s not the most relevant response. Then things get real for Sandy: Her mother dies, and she handles her grief by social media-stalking her exes. She learns that the man who broke her heart is married, and turns to dating apps for distraction. And then Sandy becomes pregnant.
Quickly, her friendships reveal themselves to be as deep as a kiddie pool. The women’s judgment is obvious as they say things will work out for Sandy eventually—but she believes they’re working out now. Her daughter is a gift, even though the child’s father turns out to be a deadbeat. Sandy realizes she’ll have to face raising a child in New York on her own—until she learns that her daughter has a half sister, and that the child’s mother isn’t Sandy’s competition but her ally.
In All the Mothers, Domenica Ruta, the author of the memoir With or Without You, paints a wholehearted picture of single motherhood, female friendship and trying to hack it in the Big Apple. The women in Sandy’s world are lovable, even as they exhibit their flaws. The mostly absent dad, too, has sympathetic moments in Ruta’s empathic storytelling.
As Sandy navigates the loss of old friendships, she finds something new and deeper in Stephanie, the other mother. Together, the women take on motherhood’s joys and many challenges. At times, Ruta goes overboard with those challenges; so much happens that the book’s final pages are a race to the resolution. But even as storylines multiply, All the Mothers makes room for the families its characters are born into, the families they stumble into and the families they choose.