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Reviews

Fostering, Mothering, Caring: A Review of Stranger Care

In her memoir, Sarah Sentilles finds herself caught between her desire to adopt her infant foster daughter and the knowledge that the foster care system is designed for biological reunification.

Reviews | September/October 2026 | By Shellie Kalinsky


“Motherhood is Its Own Kind of Curation”: A Review of Caro Claire Burke’s Yesteryear

Caro Claire Burke’s debut novel, Yesteryear, scrutinizes and satirizes the phenomenon of the tradwife influencer.

Reviews | September/October 2026 | By Katherine Murray


“Sometimes We Love by Closing a Door”: Grief, Mothering, and the Body in Preeti Vangani’s Fifty Mothers

Fifty Mothers, Preeti Vangani’s debut collection, opens with a photograph of the first page of the diary her mother kept while in college in Mumbai. Her mother’s maiden name is…

Reviews | September/October 2026 | By Emma Bolden


Her Choice to Make: A Review of Jill Christman’s The Heart Folds Early

By providing readers with the specifics of her before and after, Christman helps readers understand the weight of this choice.

Reviews | July/August 2026 | By Heidi Fettig Parton


God Listens. God Remembers. A Review of Pieces You’ll Never Get Back

Ali pieces back together her experience of giving birth and who she wants to be as a mother, in this heartbreaking and beautiful memoir.

Reviews | July/August 2026 | By Elizabeth Conway


Masks of Perfection: A Review of What’s Yours Is Mine

Jennifer Jabaley has a knack for creating flawed characters, exploring their fault lines, and driving them all to the edge of ruin. At least, that’s what she’s done within the…

Reviews | May/June 2026 | By Shellie Kalinsky


Accessing Abilities While Parenting With a Disability: A Review of Jessica Slice’s Unfit Parent

“I make this family better. Even though I must remind myself of that often,” Slice says.

Reviews | May/June 2026 | By Hilary Hodge


Beautifully Strange Stories: A Review of The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe

The Great Grown-Up Game of Make-Believe did that rare and special thing. It surprised and intrigued me.

Reviews | March/April 2026 | By Dorothy Rowena Rice


Switched At Birth: A Review of Cindy Jiban’sThe Probable Son

Cindy Jiban’s debut novel, The Probable Son, is an intriguing, troubling exploration into what it means to trust—and question—your gut as a mother.

Reviews | March/April 2026 | By Amanda Fields


Stills From the Life of a Writing Mother: A Review of Mothersalt

For all mothers, but especially new mothers, Malhotra offers a collection of poetry to turn to when life seems askew and all sense of self has fundamentally changed after birth.

Reviews | March/April 2026 | By Katherine Harnisch


Cover of "Famished" by Anna Rollins

Purity Culture’s Exertion Over Women in Anna Rollins’s Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl

Famished is about forgiveness and coming to terms with religion, life, disordered eating, and maybe being better for all of it.

Reviews | January/February 2026 | By Melissa Fraterrigo


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