Prudence Mackintosh

Writing with both a wry sense of humor and an insider’s compassion, Prudence Mackintosh offers us a fascinating look into the world of privileged, educated, well-married, well-connected, and mostly wealthy white Texas women.

In this collection of new and previously published essays, Prudence Mackintosh recounts life with her adolescent sons as they race headlong to first jobs, first driver's licenses, first girlfriends, and first flights away from the family nest.

In this collection of essays, Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the "tween" years between little boyhood and adolescence.

With telling vignettes of boyish disasters that drive her to despair, as well as the rare quiet moments of hugs and confidences that make it all worthwhile, Prudence Mackintosh perfectly captures the early years of parenthood, when a young mother still lo