There are dozens of real-life anecdotes for how working moms at middle management and executive levels juggle work and family so if you enjoy peeking into the lives of others, you will enjoy this book. I do like to see specific examples of how people manage their time, navigate their career and ascend the corporate hierarchy. The author clearly put a lot of time in identifying and interviewing a substantive number of examples to profile. The premise of comparing how Boomer and Gen X women coped versus the Millennial women in similar position is an interesting one. I also appreciate that Lublin is a veteran Wall Street Journal reporter and bureau leader, which lends credibility to her findings.

That said, I found the book tough to follow. There were so many profiles, and you only stayed with them for a fleeting story. This book is like Love Actually meets I Don't Know How She Does It, except if there were 4 times as many characters and they were onscreen for just minutes of the movie. In the end, I wasn't sure what the key takeaways were -- perhaps that everyone has a different way of managing the work and life grind? But I knew that already.