Reviews

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.

Smallwood’s poetry collection offers comfort through her lyrical prose.

The refreshing insights and intimate verse collected in What Kind of Woman invite all women and mothers into the realm of poetry.

Catherine Cho’s Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness explores postpartum psychosis with an emphasis on trauma and cultural underpinnings.

Stack’s memoir, Women’s Work, chronicles the role of domestic helps in raising her child during her early parenting years abroad and the stark reality of these women’s sacrifices.

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is an anthology that highlights marginalized voices and their perspectives of motherhood and life.

Viable is the poetic account of one mother’s halting, often heartbreaking, and hopeful steps to motherhood.

The lyrical prose of this poignant and profoundly introspective memoir shapes the stories of the author’s motherless past, grief, desires, creative influences, and the complex relationship she has with the label, “mother”.