K J J itibaren Stary Ratyniec, Poland
This book gives a brutally realistic picture of what it is like for working mothers with babies. It's focus is on continuing to breastfeed your baby once you return to work, but the authors did a great job of showing how differently each woman handles returning to work, being separated from her child, and trying to juggle everything at once. One warning: This book may depress you or freak you out if you're a first time mom. But you won't have any illusions that being a working mother is easy.
I didn't enjoy Kim as a literary work, and honestly I think it gets much of its cache from its rich details about the people and religions of India in the 19th century. I understand that as a picaresque novel that is kind of the point, but I didn't understand Kim, the main character, in the slightest. It felt like he existed to join all of India together, but I never found him to be a believable character.