Postgraduate Studies in Motherhood - Trepelkov, Helen
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"…a sentimental look at a mother's life." -KIRKUS REVIEW Ambitious and hard-working, but wrapped in the cocoon of parental love and easy success, I followed my husband from Moscow to New York City determined to pursue my budding academic career. Instead, I fell in love with the challenges and creative opportunities of motherhood and became a stay-at-home mother. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, my child-rearing travails acquired a well-defined practical goal: I wanted our two daughters to graduate from a top American college. It has been said that nothing is certain in this world but…mehr

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"…a sentimental look at a mother's life." -KIRKUS REVIEW Ambitious and hard-working, but wrapped in the cocoon of parental love and easy success, I followed my husband from Moscow to New York City determined to pursue my budding academic career. Instead, I fell in love with the challenges and creative opportunities of motherhood and became a stay-at-home mother. Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, my child-rearing travails acquired a well-defined practical goal: I wanted our two daughters to graduate from a top American college. It has been said that nothing is certain in this world but death and taxes. I would add raising children to the list. This topic is bound to remain relevant for as long as humanity exists. Moreover, in our fast-changing world, parents have to prepare their children for the unknown. In that sense, all American parents are raising foreigners now. Today more than ever, the account of a foreign parent's success is beneficial to all parents alike.
Autorenporträt
The daughter of a Russian diplomat, Helen Trepelkov graduated summa cum laude with a master's degree in International Economic Relations from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations, dubbed the "Harvard of Russia" by Henry Kissinger. Shortly after, she followed her husband to New York City and, quite unexpectedly, became a stay-at-home mother to our two daughters. Forty years later, now a grandmother, Helen still lives in New York City with her husband and help her children raise their kids. Her first book, Postgraduate Studies in Motherhood, was published by Black Rose Writing in August 2018 and won the 2018 Maxy Award runner-up in the nonfiction category.