Momlandia
An Imperfect Guide to Organic Mothering
by Jennifer Strube and Samantha Lemos
Imprint: Resource Publications
Jennifer Strube is an educator and licensed therapist. She enjoys foreign excursions, mountain climbing, glamping with her husband, and many other enterprises that get banished in Momlandia. To cope, she drank way too much coffee writing this confession (her fourth book). She works at a private school in California.
Samantha Lemos is a full-time wife, full-time mother, and works full time at Harvard Medical School. Whenever she is not chasing her toddler, she loves sailing, world travel, opera dates with her genius husband, and spending time in nature. She is from Seattle and now resides in Boston.
Lemos and Strube met while studying psychology at Wheaton College. Together, they schemed ways to lure studious boys and overturn the world. Twenty years later, their goals remain the same.
“This book should be required reading for all expectant mothers. It’s perfect for all moms but a must for first-timers. It’s the real deal of what to expect after your delivery, so there are fewer surprises from misguided expectations. I applaud Jen and Sam for unapologetically sharing everything. Their frank accounts brought on all the very real feels: joy and vulnerability, but also the comfort to know I wasn’t alone on this life-altering journey.”
—Alison Jordan, TV host
“As moms we desperately need this kind of comic relief and that comradery of knowing that we are all just winging it. One of the most challenging parts of the transition into motherhood is that illusive ideal we keep striving for. . . . This was cathartic and I couldn’t stop laughing throughout.”
—Nadia Ali, singer and songwriter
“Momlandia should be handed to all pregnant women to prepare them for the messy beauty that awaits them and to show them they’re not alone during that crazy first year of motherhood. As for me, I’ll be using its hilarious reality as birth control.”
—Whitney Popa, communications consultant, Popa & Associates, and mom of two toddlers
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