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Reviews

A Review of Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America

Sara Menkedick’s Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America poignantly reflects on a mother’s fourth trimester—a time period filled with angst and anxiety

Reviews | September/ October 2020 | By Stefanie Norlin


A Review of Maid

“My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.” This is the stark, opening line of Stephanie Land’s memoir, Maid

Reviews | July/August 2020 | By Mandy Henderly


A Review of Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity

This lovely collection of writings and illustrations, skillfully edited by Epp Buller and Reeve, critiques the status of mother artists in mainstream cultural institutions.

Reviews | July/August 2020 | By Laurie Paravati Phillips


A Review of Adult Conversation

Adult Conversation offers an up-close encounter with a woman balancing the realistic pushes and pulls of modern motherhood, who gets a chance to take her readers on an entertaining and hilarious adventure

Reviews | July/August 2020 | By Bridget Lillethorup


A Review of The Wolf Tone

The Wolf Tone is a deft portrayal of the complexities of motherhood, especially for women with creative aspirations

Reviews | July/August 2020 | By Dorothy Rice


A Review of All the Water in the World

Karen Raney’s debut novel All the Water in the World is a candid illustration of the bond between a mother and a daughter faced with an ugly disease and newly…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Rhonda Havig


A Review of The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself

I read The Beginning of Everything during the early weeks of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, and it was interesting to note the parallels between the period…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Andrea Lani


A Review of Grown and Flown

For parents of high school students and college students, this book might become a bible of sorts. I know for myself with three kids currently in this age category, I…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Denise Guibord


A Review of The Hard Tomorrow

The Hard Tomorrow, a stunningly detailed black-and-white graphic novel, ponders over the “readiness” for parenthood. The answer is a complicated blend of politics and naïve belief, but it emerges in…

Reviews | March 2020 | By DW McKinney


A Review of Counting by Sevens

Ann E. Wallace’s debut collection of poems,Counting by Sevens, is, at first glance, about the wounds we all bear as humans. Some of these wounds are borne publicly, such as…

Reviews | March 2020 | By Juli Anna Herndon


A Review of Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell is a story told poetically by an increasingly likable narrator, each small, vivid piece adding its own unapologetically human element to the narrative. It’s a story and…

Reviews | January 2020 | By Libby Maxey


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