All the Other Mothers Hate Me

Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025--San Antonio

All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harmon has been a popular book this year--listed by Penguin as a top book of the year.  It's not great literature.  And if the main character wasn't so unlikable (the other mothers are not the only ones who dislike her), it would be more enjoyable to read the book.  But the mother thinks it is justifiable to shoplift, justifiable to frame someone who may be innocent for a crime, resents the fact that she made a bad choice early in her life but continues to make bad choices day-by-day, etc.  And all the other mothers who hate her and even almost all the other characters in the story are despicable in their own ways.  So this is a book to read only if you have your own problems and want to read a "downer" in hopes that you will be able to laugh at others who have problems, too.  The beginning was somewhat interesting.  And it is a fast read. I kept reading it to the end, but I don't recommend the book.  I gave it 3 stars out of 5.