[Book Review] If It's Not One Thing It's Your Mother

If It's Not One Thing It's Your Mother is a funny and moving tale of adopting as a single mother by former SNL cast-member, Julia Sweeney.

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If It's Not One Thing It's Your Mother

 Simon & Schuster; 2014

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You would expect a memoir of motherhood and adoption by a comedian and former SNL cast member to be funny. And it is. But Julia Sweeney’s tale of adopting her daughter as a single mother, then later marrying and moving with her family from Los Angeles to Chicago, is also warm and real and sharply observed.

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