Reviews

Sonia Greenfield’s compelling collection of prose poems narrates a beautiful story of grief, gratitude, and imperfect motherhood.

The essays in The Best Most Awful Job represent a myriad of motherhood truths from diverse authors whose stories will inspire and reassure all types of mothers.

Jennifer Berney’s memoir of her extended, arduous, and deeply thoughtful path to motherhood swells with the oceanic saudade of a woman who came of age already missing the baby she’d not yet had, and missing herself as the mother she’d not yet become.

Learning to navigate midlife and motherhood offers a jarring ambivalence for mothers who are trying to gain their footing in uncertain terrain.

Amy Lyon’s reviews Christina Chiu’s, Beauty, a novel that focus on a Chinese American woman who navigates the peril of the New York fashion industry.

Lisa Braxton offers a poignant review of Rosy Cruz’s personal account on how she reunited with her kids after they were separated from her at the US/Mexico border.

In The Part That Burns, Jeannine Ouellette uses “the fuel and the flame” of her childhood to explore intergenerational trauma.

The poetic voices in this visually appealing collection give adolescent girls, and their mothers, permission to boldly be true to themselves.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil intertwines gratitude of the natural world with pieces of herself in A World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.

An engrossing tale of two mothers—an adoptive mom from California and an indigenous Guatemalan birthmother—whose separate and radically different lives are connected by the son they share.

In her book, Throwing It All Away, Nina Owen confronts her grief after her son’s suicide.