New Book Says Even Before Pandemic, Working Parents Juggled Multiple Roles
Here & Now’s Tonya Mosley speaks with Christine Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian about their new book “Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working, and Parenting in the Digital Age.”
Book Excerpt: ‘Dreams of the Overworked’
By Christine Beckman and Melissa Mazmanian
Nancy Huron’s day includes moments of joy, stress, productivity, and exhaustion. Nancy has a good job, happy children, close friends. At a fundamental level, she is privileged—and she knows it. Nancy feels like she “has it all.” And along almost any metric, she does. But her life is still a nonstop and intense grind.
Nancy’s life is driven by love for her children and her pride in her work. She tries to exercise and eat healthy food while maintaining magazine. Nancy’s desires don’t seem unreasonable: work, parent, stay healthy, with a little bit of time to relax or socialize. So why does her life feel relentless (to her and us)?
