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Reviews

A Review of Motherhood

Many women know from a young age that they want children. But for those of us who have not felt the call, or have felt the call complicated by other…

Reviews | June 2019 | By Jodie Noel Vinson


A Review of Little Million Doors

Little Million Doors by Chad Sweeny is an elegy mourning the death of his father. In this lyrical book-long poem, Sweeny breaks traditional barriers of language to draw a multifaceted…

Reviews | June 2019 | By Camille-Yvette Welsch


A Review of Hurtling Toward Happiness

“This is what I love about travel—how it heightens my senses. Some say travel is a vanishing act, disappearing down a rabbit hole, but for me it’s appearing, coming into…

Reviews | May 2019 | By Camille-Yvette Welsch


A Review of Fruit of the Earth

Fruit of the Earth offers a sincere and intimate glimpse into both personal and cultural stories that guide the reader through a broader narrative of fragmentation and belonging. … Each…

Reviews | April 2019 | By Sarah Plummer


A Review of On Immunity: An Inoculation

Biss doesn’t detail the specific efforts of the mothers with whom she spoke, but she does address the chilling consequences. “When I asked a friend how she would feel if…

Reviews | March 2019 | By Shannan Younger


A Review of The Bird Catcher and Other Stories

A woman in a mental institution wants to walk into the ocean. Another is desperate to marry off her daughter, just as her own mother was desperate to marry her…

Reviews | March 2019 | By Shannon Shea


A Review of The Widows

Lily and Marvena are an odd couple on the surface. Lily has a comfortable lifestyle, is shapely and pretty, and has been formally educated. In contrast, Marvena lives in a…

Reviews | February 2019 | By Rhonda Havig


A Review of Fierce Attachments

Over and over, she shares the inherent trauma of being raised by such an emotionally unstable woman. Depression, grief, insecurity, disapproval—pick your poison. Worse is the magnetic pull her mother…

Reviews | February 2019 | By Sheila Quirke


A Review of Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear

That day, Brooks, a self-proclaimed “uncritical consumer of anxiety,” was forced to look at American parenting culture through a whole new lens when she was arrested for leaving her four-year-old…

Reviews | January 2019 | By Kathleen Buckley


A Review of Hard Child

This collection is a metaphor for parenting. You love but you’re not sure why. You laugh, yet are sad at the same time. You feel and think about things you…

Reviews | January 2019 | By Crystal Condakes Karlberg


A Review of Every Room in the Body

Will the baby live? Will she be made mother of a living child or a dead one? What signs should have been clear? What did she miss? All the ways…

Reviews | December 2018 | By Camille-Yvette Welsch


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