All the Mothers - Hardcover

by Domenica Ruta (Author)

Welcome to "the mommune."

From New York Times bestselling author Domenica Ruta comes a "delightful and honest"* novel about a single mom reimagining what the perfect family can look like.

"Have you ever gotten screwed over by a man you never cared all that much for to begin with? Join the club. . . . A joyful journey about the trials of motherhood and found family."--Harper's Bazaar*

Sandy thought she was making her greatest mistake yet when she got unexpectedly pregnant in her mid-thirties by a dating-app flop. Now, her baby Rosie is the love of her life, but trying to co-parent with her daughter's dad, a wannabe rock star, is a challenge--and seems to be veering into catastrophe territory when Sandy finds out through social media that her daughter has a half-sibling Sandy doesn't know anything about.

Enter her ex's ex, Stephanie, the other mother. Sandy is prepared to hate her but when the two women meet, they are shocked to learn how much they have in common beyond the deadbeat father their children share. Now Sandy needs to figure out what her and Rosie's family looks like with all these new additions. Could life in a "mommune" be the answer to her prayers, or just a new brand of chaos?

In this winning story of family both born and chosen, Sandy is about to discover that when nothing goes as planned, the best things become possible.

Author Biography

Domenica Ruta is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir With or Without You and the novel Last Day, lauded one of 100 Notable Books of the Year in 2019 by the New York Times Book Review. Born and raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of Oberlin College and holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She currently teaches in the creative writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, and her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Cut, The American Scholar, Oprah online, and many others. She currently lives in New York City with her family.