What Was I Thinking?: How Being a Stand Up Comic Did Nothing to Prepare Me to Become a Single Mother

Margaret Smith, blithely disregarding the conventional wisdom that female comics must labor within proscribed borders, has gone her own way. What the New York Times wrote about Smith's award-winning stand-up routine is also true of Smith's new book. In this hilarious romp, one of America's senior comedic writers describes what she thought it would be like--and what it was really like-- to become a single Mother.