What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel

Amy Scheibe

Macmillan, Aug 22, 2006 - Fiction - 307 pages

Bright, witty, and covered in homemade play-dough, Jennifer Bradley has traded her fabulous job at a New York auction house for the life of a stay-at-home mom. No one said it would be easy. Between the alpha moms all around her and a backstabbing mother-in-law, there's little hope that maternal instinct alone will save her. And perhaps it was less than helpful of her husband, Thom, to suddenly take off on business to Singapore for the next who-knows-how-long, leaving behind the faint scent of an extramarital affair. And this may not be the best time for Jennifer's old flame, a former child star, to show up on her doorstep, looking to patch things up.

What Do You Do All Day? is a sparkling story of love, lust, and the joys of modern motherhood.

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LibraryThing Review

User Review  - picklechic - LibraryThing

This book was a really funny romp through the good, bad and ugly sides of motherhood. Often times I was rolling at how hilarious and right on target the anecdotes about everyday life as a mother. The ...

Review: What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel

User Review  - Sharon - Goodreads

As a motherhood novel, this book is a cut above the genre. Ms. Scheibe presents a more nuanced view of the stay-at-home vs. work dilemma than many authors do. Her main characters also has to deal with ...

About the author

Amy Scheibe is the author of What Do You Do All Day? She has written for Dame Magazine, Seattle Weekly, The Forward, The Jewish Quarterly, and other publications. Born in Minnesota and reared in North Dakota, she now lives in the Catskill mountains with her husband and two children.

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Do You Do All Day?: A Novel
• Author: Amy Scheibe
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 0312425627, 9780312425623
• Length: 307 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Family Life; Fiction / Humorous; Fiction / Humorous / General; Fiction / Literary