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Heather Armstrong, the author of It Sucked and Then I Cried, describes her award-winning blog as “talking a lot about poop, boobs, her dog and her daughter.” As the book’s title suggests, that earthiness is omnipresent in Armstrong’s very candid memoir about her pregnancy, new motherhood, and a post-partum depression so severe that she wound up in a mental hospital. As you read, you will need tissues for both tears of laughter as well as sniffles of sadness. By the end, you’ll wish Heather was a friend you wish you could have over for lunch, and you’ll be almost as in love with her husband, daughter, and two wacky dogs as Heather herself clearly is.