What working parent hasn't considered delivering a performance review to their child prior to granting a salary, er, allowance increase? "The Plate Spinner Chronicles: A Working Mother's Epic Adventure" is a hybrid memoir/how-to guide that is stuffed with multi-tasking advice and relevant, but nostalgic anecdotes, all written in the wry tone of a harried working mother who'd rather laugh than cry over the length of her to-do list. This book is a compilation of The Plate Spinner columns which originally ran in the Chicago Tribune.