Reviews

Smallwood’s poetry collection offers comfort through her lyrical prose.

The refreshing insights and intimate verse collected in What Kind of Woman invite all women and mothers into the realm of poetry.

Catherine Cho’s Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness explores postpartum psychosis with an emphasis on trauma and cultural underpinnings.

Stack’s memoir, Women’s Work, chronicles the role of domestic helps in raising her child during her early parenting years abroad and the stark reality of these women’s sacrifices.

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is an anthology that highlights marginalized voices and their perspectives of motherhood and life.

Viable is the poetic account of one mother’s halting, often heartbreaking, and hopeful steps to motherhood.

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”.

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.

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

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

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