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Babies And Bylines: Parenting On The Move

Babies And Bylines: Parenting On The Move

Pallavi Aiyar

Babies and Bylines is a parenting memoir of a working mother of two young boys in three different parts of the world - Beijing, Brussels and Jakarta. Witty, irreverent and honest, it highlights the battles a mother must fight with herself, and the world, as she struggles with issues that seem to stubbornly remain the same, generation after generation work-life balance, negotiat...

Publisher:
Phoenix
Year of publication:
2016
ISBN:
978-93-5177-560-7
Pages:
232
14,95 €
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Babies and Bylines is a parenting memoir of a working mother of two young boys in three different parts of the world - Beijing, Brussels and Jakarta. Witty, irreverent and honest, it highlights the battles a mother must fight with herself, and the world, as she struggles with issues that seem to stubbornly remain the same, generation after generation work-life balance, negotiating marital equality and taming toddlers.

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