Mary Louise Kelly, cohost of NPR’s All Things Considered, offers a very personal take on parenting. This memoir about raising two boys while also pursuing a demanding career isn’t just another book about finding the right work-life balance. Kelly knows how to tell a story and how to pull you along and keep you entertained and interested. She frames her book around the year before her oldest son goes off to college, a year in which she also loses her dad, turns 50, and the world emerges from a pandemic. Of course, you might ask, why would a parent, gripped by the realization that time is running out on having all her kids at home, take on the additional burden of writing a book? In a chapter titled “Sticking the Landing,” she explains she wanted to record and reckon with her choices while still living them. And indeed, with this book, she does stick the landing, with heart, frankness, humor, and insight.