Ayelet Waldman is a novelist and essayist who was formerly a lawyer. She is noted for her self-revelatory essays, and for her writing (both fiction and non-fiction) about the changing expectations of motherhood. She has written extensively about juggling the demands of children, partners, career and society, in particular about combining paid work with modern motherhood, and about the ensuing maternal ambivalence.

Waldman is the author of seven mystery novels in the series The Mommy-Track Mysteries and has published three novels of general interest, Daughter's Keeper (2003), Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits is a novel by Ayelet Waldman and released in 2006.-Plot summary:Emilia Greenleaf is an attorney living in New York city with her husband, John Woolf. Emilia is stepmother to John's remarkablly intelligent four-year-old son, William. William lives primarily with...

(2006) and Red Hook Road (2010), as well as a collection of personal essays entitled Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace (2009).