One Bad Mother: A Mother's Search for Meaning in the Police Academy

After her six-year-old daughter puts a hammer through a wall, Megan Williams decides to abandon a career as an academic and become a police officer.



It's not lost on her that she may have applied to the Police Academy to escape the realities of mothering twins born via IVF at twenty-nine weeks. As the twins grow and test her endlessly, she feels she is failing. She needs a win.



During a grueling application process, Megan measures herself against the other candidates and confronts the normati...