Hi, I'm Zibi Owens, and this is Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.

As a mom of four kids in New York City and a writer myself, I know all too well how short everyone is on time, so I'm here to help.

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relates to parenting and family issues. Hopefully you can listen while doing 8 million other

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I'm here today with Amy Malloy, author of several books, including however long the night and Janssen's gift,

plus books she wrote with Elizabeth Edwards and John Kerry and Teresa Hines-Carrie.

She recently released the novel The Perfect Mother, so nice of you to name that after me, by the way,

which was an instant New York Times bestseller. The movie rights have already been sold to make it into a major motion picture starring Carrie Washington, and it just came out on May 1st. Right. She's also written articles and essays for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Salon.com. Amy now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children ages three and five. So welcome. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Of course. So for the busy moms out there who might have missed all the amazing press your book has been getting, heralding it as the can't miss summer read, can you explain what the perfect mother is about? Yes, it's about a group of women called the May mothers who meet after having babies in May at the same time. And it's a mommy group and they get together before their kids are born and then after the

kids are born they meet twice a week in Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

And when the babies are six weeks old, they decide that they need a night away for the

first time from their kids.

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