In Mother Shock: Tales from the First and Beyond, Buchanan
relates the initial stage of parenting and motherhood when you are not
really aware of the biological clock and cannot really afford to neatly
maintain the separation between night and day. It is surely chaotic and
confusing and often hilarious. It is all a result of the mixed effect of
hormonal imbalance, physical exhaustion and sleep deprivation. It is a
culmination of expectation, experience, theory and reality.
All aspects of being a mother to a newborn child have been captured in
the 30 essays compiled in the book. The author takes you through a land
where you have kept your first step on the land on which you are to have
a long journey. You start understanding the language and the rules of
the land.
It can be an excellent choice for a Mother's Day gift as it awakens the
mother in a woman. And at the same time, it also leaves a pleasant
aftertaste in the reader's mind.
