Reviews

It is always odd to read a postmodern analysis of your own life. I have been a foster mom, a lesbian “bio” mom via alternative insemination (AI) and a gestational…

When I was asked if I would be interested in reviewing Ami McKay’s The Birth House, I jumped at the opportunity. The book had received rave reviews in Canada and…

Where is the line between self and other? Is the good of the one ever more important than the good of the many? High falutin’ philosophers have explored those questions…

Nice Big American Baby, a collection of short stories by Judy Budnitz, is not the book to read if one wants to be reassured about the condition of humanity. But…

Straight and biological mother that I am, I might not be the perfect person to review this exciting new collection of essays entitled Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian…

Long, long ago, in a time of microwave dinners and sexless marriages, there lived a princess who had the most beautiful family the world had ever seen. But the princess’s…

Against every belief I ever thought I had, I am a stay-at-home mom. For a brief period after the birth of my first child, I was a working mom. I…

Many years ago I wrote a novel about two brothers whose mother abandons them at a young age. Toward the end of the novel, the mother explains to her now…

I was apprehensive about reviewing Darla Shine’s Happy Housewives. The book’s premise, written in a chatty “hey, girls” style, is that Shine, a former career woman, has found happiness as…

Last week I was at the gym when the woman on the treadmill to my left asked, “What are you reading?” I showed her the cover of Confessions of a…

Samina Ali’s impressive first novel, Madras on Rainy Days, was interesting reading for me as a mother. It took me back to the time of life before the onslaught of…