and i was like, what about moms? what about parents? like what about caregivers? like i'm i feel pretty essential right now and no one is talking about us. and you know, i'm watching the news and we're talking about essential workers and healthcare workers sanitation workers transportation workers and i'm like, yes, they are totally essential. i was feeling frustrated because i couldn't write it all and i was like, i'm only a caretaker. so i like have a very understanding editor and she was like she said, yeah, i mean i was joking to my husband that i'm gonna have to quit my job because i can't do it all so we like pushed it back basically in the end by a year.Īnd you know, one of the seeds was that i was like at the beginning of the pandemic.

and then my children were just home with me for like four months straight and i was within 24/7 and i mean it only took a month for me to realize there's no way i'm going to meet my deadline of july 2020. so i was trying to write this book and it wasn't going well and then the pandemic happened. i was like, i don't need i never thought that i would write a book about motherhood and i was like, i don't want to write another one not because it's not interesting to me but because the market thinks it's niche right like anything with like women's things like over here, and it's just you know, and and i felt like i wanted to not be pigeonholed. I mean relatable, right? so i that was kind of how it started and i was like, i don't want to my background is writing about food.

Essential labor by angela garbes