Join Village Books in welcoming Megan Williams as she shares her new debut memoir One Bad Mother: A Woman's Search for Meaning in Motherhood and the Philadelphia Police Academy! 

 

 

After one of her six-year-old twins puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams feels as if she is failing the test that is motherhood. And it's one she's been failing ever since her twins were born at twenty- nine weeks. Recognizing a hole in her life that is eerily similar to the space left in the drywall, Williams abandons her academic career to apply to the Police Academy. She needs a win. Through a grueling, two-year application process, Williams confronts her mental and physical abilities while dealing with the paralyzing fear that she is a bad mother and the real possibility she might not survive the cut at the Academy. When all is done, she makes peace with a motherhood far different from the dream sold by our culture.

 

Megan Williams is the author of One Bad Mother: A Woman's Search for Meaning in Motherhood and the Philadelphia Police Academy. After graduating from Haverford College, Megan received her Ph.D. in English from Temple University and taught at Lafayette College and Santa Clara University. She has moved across the country—never landing in the middle—three times in twenty years. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, who runs Blue Dog Bakery and keeps their teenage twins, rescued cat, horse, and mastiffs full of treats.