Reviews

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”.

Written with lyrical honesty, Yellow Tulips offers an unflinching look into one woman’s story of generational trauma, bipolar disorder, and a broken mental health care system.

In Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir, Heather Lanier learns to let go of expectations and embraces what is, instead of what isn’t.

Maya Lang explores the intricacies of the mother-daughter relationship in her poignant memoir, What We Carry.

Kari Lizer’s Aren’t You Forgetting Someone? confronts midlife and its difficult transitions with humor, vulnerability, and grace.

Seconds and Inches is a deeply introspective memoir about the ways in which trauma can move through a family and how, despite the impact and the suffering, one woman sought out love, connection, and gratitude to reclaim her life.

This is the story of domestic violence homicide, the immediate victims, yes but also the riptide that tears through the lives of those left behind.

A Finalist in the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction, Deesha Philyaw’s The Secret Lives of Church Ladies tells the fraught and aching stories of church-going black women wrestling with their desires.

An evocative collection as diverse as the mother-writers featured, My Caesarean explores and exposes the realities of C-sections with raw honesty and visceral beauty, and opens wide the conversation about surgical births.

Jayne Martin’s writing moves beyond the obvious in Tender Cuts, a stunningly provocative collection of short-short fictitious tales.

This deeply moving memoir explores the dichotomy of highs and lows, questions and feelings, and the mixed dreams and realities of mothering five children, ages infant to teen.