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Reviews

Unmoored: A Review of Swimming With Maya: A Mother’s Story

“Do anything,” pleads Eleanor Vincent with the surgeon, as she hovers over her daughter’s broken, bandaged body in the ICU. “This child is my life.” Eleanor Vincent’s memoir, Swimming With…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Suzanne LaFetra


Wake Up and Smell the Martinis: A Review of The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting

“It has come to my attention that children have become the center of our universe,” begins The Three-Martini Playdate: A Happy Guide to Practical Parenting, by Christie Mellor. To which…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Jennifer Eyre White


A Review of Departures

As Elizabeth Oness opens her debut novel Departures, a mother of three grown daughters has just disappeared. “I’m leaving the country for a while. Don’t look for me. Don’t worry,”…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Hilary Flower


A Whorish Madonna: A Review of Mommy’s Little Girl: On Sex, Motherhood, Porn, and Cherry Pie

In April 1990 I happened to be in Minneapolis, considering a graduate program at the University of Minnesota. I was walking across the campus, wondering about the community I might…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Polly Pagenhart


Born and Raised in this Dead-End Town: A Review of Growing Up Fast

In 1917, Edith Wharton wrote the novel Summer. Set in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, Summer tells the story of Charity Royall, a teenage foster child who finds herself…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Norah Piehl


Starving for Affection: A Review of How I Learned to Cook, and other writings on complex mother-daughter relationships

In the introduction to her new collection of brief memoirs, Margo Perin explains that her book is meant to remedy the dearth of literary explorations of the “shadow side of…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Patricia R. Payette


Learning Curve: A Review of The House on Beartown Road: A Memoir of Learning and Forgetting

When my son was born, I was obsessed with documenting each stage of his life. I shot hours of videotape of him chewing his toe, torturing the cat, slapping the…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Suzanne LaFetra


Not In Her Footsteps: A Review of Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within

In her new book, Mothering Without A Map: The Search for the Good Mother Within (January, 2004), Kathryn Black shows how emotionally wounded daughters can travel down a different path…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Rachel Sarah


How She Writes It: A Review of I Don’t Know How She Does It

It’s a cruel world. The many compete for limited resources controlled by the few, time marches on, and things don’t work out as we had planned. In a cruel world,…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Libby Gruner


Fear of Failing: A Review of A Potent Spell: Mother Love and the Power of Fear

My one-year-old son finally slept through the night. Instead of feeling relief, I was tense with worry. “Do you think he’s okay?” I asked my husband. “Should I go in…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Norah Piehl


The Milky Way: A Review of Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts

In her new book Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts, feminist scholar Fiona Giles takes on the image problem of breasts in this double-D obsessed society and “outs” breasts…

Reviews | February 2005 | By Heidi Raykeil


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