Reviews

Life is often a messy escapade, and we rarely have the luxury of dealing with one gut punch before the next one is there to knock us on our keisters again. Which just makes the title of the memoir, Knocked Down, all the more apt.

Though it is clear the book is set in a kind of vaguely dystopian world, with surveillance and expectations on steroids, it feels like a place we are doomed to end up if we don’t start dialing down the expectations forced upon  mothers.

It’s heartbreak and fear in the face of possible joy. For anyone who is facing fertility challenges, Blevins’s attempts to communicate these feelings is a gift. 

Each story in How Far I’ve Come is a gem, glittery with wit, polished with nuance, steeped in life’s inevitable, inescapable ironies.

Domestic abuse is a world; when you’re immersed in that world, it’s nearly impossible to reserve a ship off the planet.

From the coauthor of the groundbreaking book, The Courage to Heal, this beautiful and heartbreaking memoir recounts, with unflinching honesty, the author’s fiery and complicated relationship with her mother.

Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40 explores the “foreign country” of geriatric parenthood and how it traverses the intersections of gender, age, race, and sexual orientation.

In her story collection, Shapeshifting, Michelle Ross isn’t afraid to explore the dark and vulnerable ways in which motherhood can shift a woman’s identity.

In her debut essay collection, Ona Gritz claims the many facets of her identity through her experiences of motherhood and disability, love and grief, creative collaboration and romantic partnership.

Melissa Scholes Young’s novel, The Hive, explores how unraveling secrets impact a family.

Motherhood, Marchiano asserts, has the potential to take us down into the depths and return us to the surface, armed with insight.