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Contact: Janis Jaquith BIRDSEED COOKIES - DON'T WORRY, IT'S NOT A COOKBOOK What's it like to raise three kids, when one of them has Attention Deficit Disorder and Mom has ADD, too? Well, for one thing, the unbridled creativity can lead to a child baking improvised cookies - and only after your first bite does he reveal that the secret ingredient is birdseed. Originally written as radio commentaries, Janis Jaquith's tales from her offbeat family life have been broadcast on NPR-station WVTF-FM in Roanoke, Virginia, as well as nationally on "The Cultivated Gardener" and on Public Radio International's "Marketplace." "Jaquith writes like a dream. ...'Birdseed Cookies' is a jewel. ...[E]very Jaquith essay appeals because of honesty and humor, puckishness and polish." (The Roanoke Times, reviewed by Barbara Dickinson, May 6, 2001) In "Birdseed Cookies: A Fractured Memoir," Jaquith takes the reader on a trip through the life and mind of a woman who doesn't have it all - who hasn't got it all figured out. "A normal person would try to come across as evolved, and healed, and wise. But I'm none of those things - I'm no wiser now than I was at sixteen." Throughout this collection of sixty-six biographical vignettes - peppered with whimsical illustrations by artist Cara Llewellyn - the author zooms in on the small moments in life, some of which we never talk about: when our kids get head lice, or what your heart feels like when it's breaking. In "Attention Deficit Disorder - Who Knew?" Jaquith chronicles her own bumpy journey through childhood with undiagnosed ADD. Other scenes from Jaquith's life give us a glimpse into a mind that is, as the saying goes, a bubble or two off plumb. In one essay, "I Can Still Zip It Up, I Swear," we discover that she squeezes into her wedding dress on every anniversary - at the risk of having to be cut out of it. In "Confessions of a Babysitter" Jaquith admits that, as a teenager in Wilmington, Massachusetts, she babysat regularly for a child that she never, ever laid eyes on. To read and hear samples of Janis Jaquith's essays visit http://www.radioessays.com
BIRDSEED COOKIES: A FRACTURED MEMOIR
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