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Reviews

A Review of Mother Winter: A Memoir

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”.

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Nicole Nelson


A Review of Yellow Tulips

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.

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Mandy Henderly


A Review of Raising a Rare Girl: A Memoir

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

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Nancy Reddy


A Review of What We Carry: A Memoir

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

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Ranjani Rao


A Review of Aren’t You Forgetting Someone?: Essays from My Mid-Life Revenge

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

Reviews | January/February 2021 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


A Review of Seconds and Inches

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.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Wendy Fontaine


A Review of No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Wendy Knight


A Review of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

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.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By DW McKinney


A Review of My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After

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.

Reviews | November /December 2020 | By Autumn Purdy


A Review of Tender Cuts

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

Reviews | September/ October 2020 | By Crystal Condakes Karlberg


A Review of My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother’s Story

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.

Reviews | September/ October 2020 | By Naomi Racz


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