Sarah Hoover's Memoir 'The Motherlode' Is Being Turned Into a Television Series

"Instead of joy, it is turning out to be months of rage, brain fog, self medication, and a scorched earth policy towards her husband,"

"A total surrender of sex, career and identity results, and Jennifer realizes she'll never be able to find her way to fulfillment in parenthood without the hardest of looks at herself, her relationship to her own mother, to men, and to the condition of being a woman who despises bullshit mommy narratives."

"dares to ask what happens when 'what to expect when you're expecting' turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity,"

"She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her."

A drama series at 20th Television adapts Sarah Hoover's memoir The Motherload with Stuart Zicherman as showrunner and Hoover co-writing the pilot with Sas Goldberg. The series follows Jennifer, a millennial art dealer whose experience of motherhood becomes months of rage, brain fog, self-medication, and a scorched-earth policy toward her husband. A total surrender of sex, career and identity forces an examination of herself, her relationship with her mother, and attitudes toward men and maternal narratives. Hoover moved from Indiana to New York, studied art history, worked in a gallery, and married artist Tom Sachs. Pregnancy triggered imposter feelings, distance from loved ones, anxiety, guilt, shame, and postpartum depression. The memoir rejects idealized, pure mother archetypes.

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