Reviews

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…