Title: Burnt Cupcakes-a Memoir of Marriage, Motherhood and Madness
Author: Carrie Cader
Publisher: Mirror Publishing
ISBN: 9781612252308
Pages: 460, Paperback/Kindle
Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir
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Synopsis
When thirty-one year old Carrie is over-extended, exhausted from work, and trying to pull together the perfect birthday for her child, she ends up on the kitchen floor, lying in a sticky mess of splattered cupcakes, wondering how exactly she had gotten to this point in her life. A candid memoir, Burnt Cupcakes-a Memoir of Marriage, Motherhood and Madness, is the story of a young woman who is struggling to balance her marriage, two babies, career and home, not to mention all the social pressures that accompany raising a family in a close-knit community, all while not losing herself along the way. Presented with truth and humor, readers of Burnt Cup- cakes will respond with recognition and empathy to an honest and genuine, but not always pretty, depiction of contemporary marriage and motherhood.
About the Author
Carrie began writing at the age of 10 when she learned it was easier to invent exotic adventures on paper than to experience them in her rural Northern California one-traffic light town. After earning a bachelors degree from Sonoma State University, where she majored in communications and wrote for the school newspaper, she began a career in pharmaceutical sales.
Along the way Carrie married her college sweetheart, Josh, became mother to daughter, Jillian, and son, Lars, and dabbled in competitive running. The hours pounding the pavement gave her plenty of time to compose in her head.
Carrie’s love for writing, through the years, has remained a constant. Her memoir is a candid portrait of a young woman in search of what truly matters as she raises her young family.
