“Mom Brain” is the second book from Nicole Hackett, and it’s one of several recent novels that explore motherhood—in the same vein as “Mother Is a Verb” by Kim Hooper or “Nine Perfect Strangers” by Liane Moriarty. It’s also, arguably, a book designed to be chosen for book clubs and feminism debates, as it includes handy discussion questions at the end.
Georgia’s Brain
The main “Mom Brain” in question here is Georgia Evans’s. Georgia’s a patent lawyer with a pharmacy degree. Her family life consists of a caring, supportive husband named Will, who’s an American literature teacher, and two daughters: Clover, age 5, and Ruby, nearly 1.At the start of the story, Georgia is in a rough state, practically having a mental breakdown. A scandal at her workplace blew up when her name was leaked as an anonymous source in an exposé article. Her bosses have dismissed her account as “a misrepresentation of the truth,” which many people online believe to mean, “Georgia lied.”
