Description
After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer.
It's not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win.
During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normative notions of what it is to be a good mother. The paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother looms large in her head, as does the real possibility that she might not make the cut at the Academy. With its intertwined narratives of police recruitment and motherhood, the memoir provides an unflinching journalistic view of big-city law enforcement, set atop a personal journey during which Megan learns gratitude and makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold to her by our culture.
Author: Megan Williams
Publisher: Sibylline Press
Published: 09/03/2024
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.47h x 5.32w x 0.51d
ISBN13: 9781960573858
ISBN10: 1960573853
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood