"This voice-driven, relatable, heartfelt and emotional story will make any parent tear up." --Good Morning America "A book that will resonate with parents everywhere." -- USA Today "Exceptional.illuminating reflections and engaging stories.Some of the best chapters take readers along on Kelly's news reporting adventures.making the book as at home in the journalism section as it is in literature and parenting and giving an already excellent title added appeal." -- Booklist (starred review) ".she beautifully captures the chaos and pathos of parenting.
Parents will cherish this." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) " It Goes So Fast. is a moving and funny account of the deals we cut with ourselves: what we sacrifice, what we gain, and what we really want (which is everything). By holding up a mirror to her own choices, Mary Louise Kelly gives us tremendous insight into how we struggle to be true to ourselves and the people we love, and how we're never going to get it exactly right. This book is the voice of solidarity. It is a gift." -- Ann Patchett, Author of Tom Lake and The Dutch House "This compelling account of the divided heart of a dedicated journalist and devoted mother is tender and gritty and remarkably relevant." --Hilma Wolitzer, Author of Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket "Mary Louise Kelly has written an achingly honest memoir that reflects the joys, regrets, pitfalls and triumphs of the modern working mother.
Humor, heart, and humanity bounce off every. single. page. I felt like I was having a bottle (or two) of wine with a close friend whose balancing act very much resonated with mine--and probably yours too." -- Katie Couric "A book for everyone who has to get through the sweet agony of raising children and letting them go. Kelly describes the interior shifts of this and other milestones with candor, vulnerability and wry humor." --Katty Kay, BBC Correspondent and New York Times bestselling author of The Confidence Code "From All Things Considered cohost Mary Louise Kelly comes an action-packed and intimate memoir written during her eldest son's final year before he left for college. Kelly writes candidly about the bittersweetness of watching one's children become independent adults (as she puts it, "Our children are outgrowing us from the moment they are born") and about how she balanced the responsibilities of being a mother with having a high-stakes, very public career.
It Goes So Fast is about both the soccer games Kelly went to and the ones that she missed--the moments when motherhood means being present and protective and nurturing, and the moments when it means letting go." --Oprah Daily.