Suburban Haiku: Poetic Dispatches from Behind the Picket Fence

Peyton Price understands the psyche of the suburban mother. Once an ambitious go-getter with a respected career, Price veered off the fast track and into the carpool lane. Wanting what's best for two kids and a husband, Price finds it hard not to keep up with the Joneses-especially when they are living right next door. Yet, unlike other micro-managing mothers, Price does not unwind with a glass of wine, but with haiku.

True to form, every haiku is a 17-syllable catharsis-capturing the frust...