Stanford Magazine
Book Review: Your Attention, Please
Working parents are bone-tired. That much is clear with two Southern California professors’ well-documented tour of our triple-crown quest to be the “Ideal Worker,” the “Perfect Parent” and the “Ultimate Body.” Among the memorable stories included in Dreams of the Overworked: Living, Working and Parenting in the Digital Age, by Christine M. Beckman, ’91, MA ’91, PhD ’99, and Melissa Mazmanian (Stanford University Press), is that of a single mother who aims for a daily 4:30 a.m. treadmill run before dropping off her kids at school, with only a Starbucks vanilla latte fueling her hour-long commute
Lenora Chu