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Professional party planner turned stay-at-home-mom, Brynn Hallman always imagined she'd be the ideal mother for her little boy, Cody. But her plans go awry with a series of medical complications that send her into a tailspin. Fueled by bad reality TV and a growing obsession with an Instafamous mommy influencer, Brynn falls deeper into her growing depression and turns inward, shutting out her pre-baby friends and pretending to her husband, Kyle, that everything is just fine. During the early morning hours, Brynn sees a flashing light from her back porch across the expanse of her yard. Is it a trick of her tired eyes? For the first time in months, she ventures out of the house to discover the source of the light. What she finds will draw her into the life of an eccentric new friend, forcing her to confront her changing identity and the pressures of motherhood. Imbued with an emotional resonance that will draw in fans of Ann Napolitano - but cast in an utterly unique voice - Kalyn Fogart
Author Notes
Kalyn Fogarty is an author who grew up on a horse farm in rural Massachusetts. When she's not writing, she's riding and training horses at Artemis Training and Sales, a showjumping farm in New York. She lives with her husband, two young daughters, and German Shepherd rescue on the south shore of Long Island.
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Motherhood isn't what Brynn expected. Although she adores her newborn, she's overwhelmed and feels adrift in the long days of caregiving. Her once-organized life is chaotic and messy, the opposite of the lives of the seemingly perfect momfluencers online. One night, she notices a flashing light coming from a neighboring house. Curious, she meets her neighbor Joy, a lonely, older woman whose kindness is a balm to Brynn's frazzled nerves. But even as their friendship deepens, Brynn is still compelled to present herself as one of the "perfect" moms she sees on social media, carefully concealing the stress, anxiety, and loneliness that she feels. Fogarty (What We Carry, 2021) captures the hazy early days of motherhood and the ways in which a person's identity shifts after giving birth. It's an honest exploration of the ache of postpartum depression and anxiety and the pressure on mothers to hide negative feelings and experiences that deviate from the sunny depictions of motherhood on social media. Fans of Lisa Duffy and Karma Brown will be drawn into Fogarty's well-crafted novel.
