Laugh. Cry. Snack. Repeat: The Parenting Book We’ve All Been Waiting For
If you’ve ever negotiated bedtimes like peace treaties, treated snacks as sacred currency, or wondered who you were before 8 p.m., this book is for you.
In Snack-shack and the Confessions of a Tired Parent, Aditi Dasgupta delivers a razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud account of modern Indian motherhood—unfiltered, unapologetic, and gloriously honest. Part memoir, part stand-up routine, and part emotional gut-punch, the book explores everything from postpartum dread and parenting fads to poop logs, sleep deprivation, and the existential philosophy of snacks.
Praised for reclaiming humour as a feminist language, this book refuses both sugar-coated romance and despair. Instead, it lives in the messy middle—where exhaustion becomes insight, laughter becomes resistance, and love is both absurd and profound. As author Manjiri Indurkar notes, Dasgupta turns the domestic into a site of rebellion and grace, while Sherina Joshi calls it a stylistic triumph and a must-read exploration of motherhood’s many layers.
This isn’t advice. It’s recognition.
And maybe permission to snack through the chaos.
Snack-shack and the Confessions of a Tired Parent by Aditi Dasgupta., coming soon on Readomania!
About the Author
Aditi is an ordinary feminist with an extraordinary hunger for stories. A researcher at heart, her MPhil in English Literature delved into postcolonial traumas in Indian literatures. She honed her craft through a residency at Yale and the Institute for World Literatures at Harvard. Her book, Silencing of the Sirens, has drawn critical acclaim, and her words echo in Borderless Journal, The Wise Owl Literary Magazine, The Hooghly Review, Pangyrus Literary Magazine, WritingWomenCo, InkNest Poetry and MeanPepperVine. Her short story “Temple Bell of Benaras” was awarded first place in The Writer’s Hour Magazine, marking a quiet but resonant milestone in her journey with fiction. Her flash fiction piece “The Economy of Gravies,” a tender exploration of memory and meals, has found a forthcoming home in Pangyrus Literary’s annual anthology A Table to Hold the World—a collection that celebrates the intimacy of immigrant and native cuisines around the world focusing on themes of conflict, culture and displacement within food stories. This is expected to be published in early 2026. You can follow Aditi’s writing, parenting adventures and culinary misadventures on Instagram at @girlinkafkaverse
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