Wishful Thinking

(Paperback)

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Sheryl Sandbergs Lean In has sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide, giving rise to a movement (there are more than 14,000 official Lean In circles online), and work/life balance books and articles are constantly in the news; this book provides a fresh angle on a hot topic.

There are 72 million women in the American workforce today, and of those, 69.9 percent have children under the age of 18.

60 percent of women name their mobile phones as the most important devices in their lives (significantly higher than men, at 43 percent). 78 percent of women say their smartphone the first thing they look at in the morning. Wishful Thinkings app-based premise taps into this reality. (Time Inc. and Nuance Digital Marketing study)

Reviews

A quirky time-traveling adventure mixed with a treatise on the plight of the working mother . . . Wicoff has a comic touch with this amiable fantasy.
Kirkus

With a bit of time-space-bending whimsy, Wicoff taps into every parents wistful dream.
Booklist

A thought-provoking, gimlet-eyed satire of contemporary motherhood in the guise of a romantic comedy, Wishful Thinking is a Trojan horse of a novel, delivering incisive social commentary while it entertains and delights you. I devoured every word of this funny, brilliant book.
Christina Baker Kline, author of Orphan Train

Wishful Thinking is funny, tender, perceptiveI tore through it with delight.
Gretchen Rubin, best-selling author of The Happiness Project and Happier At Home

Wishful Thinking is a whimsical, time-bending tale about an overextended, working single mothers Year of Magical Living. The solution handed to Jennifer is both fanciful and practical. Who wouldn't want extra hours added to each day If only!
Hope Edelman, The Possibility of Everything

In Wishful Thinking, Kamy Wicoff takes a fantasy weve all had and turns it into a sparkling, witty, sympathetic take on the stresses, and the rewards, of motherhood, of work, and of being alive at this moment.
Francine Prose, author of Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris: 1932

Author Bio

Kamy Wicoff is the founder, with author Deborah Siegel, of SheWrites.com, the world's largest online community for women who write. She is also the founder, with publisher Brooke Warner, of She Writes Press. Wicoffs first book, the best-selling I Do But I Don't: Why The Way We Marry Matters, was published by Da Capo Press in 2006. Her work has appeared in Salon.com, and has been anthologized in Why Im Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out On Love, Loss, and Who Does The Dishes (Hudson Press, 2006), and About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror (Seal Press, 2008). She serves on the board of Girls Write Now, a mentoring organization in New York City, and also formerly served on the Advisory Council for Stanford Universitys Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Wicoff lives in Brooklyn with her sons, Max and Jed.