“The parenting genre is hardly ever going to be the same” (Jancee Dunn, author of How Never to Hate Your Husband After Having Kids) with this candid and hilarious assortment of essays on motherhood in the award-winning television comedy writer and producer of 2 Broke Girls and The Ruler of Queens, who swears she loves her kids—when she’s not hiding from them.

Some women feel that motherhood is a getting in touch with and their purpose on the planet. They somehow manage to make pregnancy appear effortless, bring out the about Don’t Wait around Up: Confessions of a Stay-at-Work Mother beauty inside a screaming kid, and keep carefully the back seat of their cars as spotless as their kitchens.

And there’s females like Liz Astrof—who originally had children because “everyone else was.”

With this blunt and side-splittingly funny book of essays, Liz Astrof embraces the realities of motherhood (and womanhood) that no one ever talks about: like needing to hide from your kids within your closet, your vehicle, or a yoga class on the other side of town, permitting them to eat candy for dinner because you just can’t deal, towards the sheer terror of failing them or at the minimum shedding them in a shopping mall. And sometimes, many times, wondering if the whole parenting factor wasn’t for you personally.

Perfect for followers of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and I Heart My Small A-Holes, Don’t Wait around Up is an soul-baring and honest take a look at parenting and interactions for mothers who realize that motherhood doesn’t have to be your entire existence—just an incredible element of it.