Reviews

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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…