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Reviews

Giving Voice: A Review of When Home Is Not Safe: Writings on Domestic Verbal, Emotional and Physical Abuse

Domestic abuse is a world; when you’re immersed in that world, it’s nearly impossible to reserve a ship off the planet.

Reviews | March/April 2022 | By Amanda Fields


A Review of The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story

From the coauthor of the groundbreaking book, The Courage to Heal, this beautiful and heartbreaking memoir recounts, with unflinching honesty, the author’s fiery and complicated relationship with her mother.

Reviews | January/February 2022 | By Jeannine Ouellette


A Review of Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40

Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40 explores the “foreign country” of geriatric parenthood and how it traverses the intersections of gender, age, race, and sexual orientation.

Reviews | January/February 2022 | By Ellen Elder


A Review of Shapeshifting

In her story collection, Shapeshifting, Michelle Ross isn’t afraid to explore the dark and vulnerable ways in which motherhood can shift a woman’s identity.

Reviews | January/February 2022 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


A Review of Present Imperfect

In her debut essay collection, Ona Gritz claims the many facets of her identity through her experiences of motherhood and disability, love and grief, creative collaboration and romantic partnership.

Reviews | November/December 2021 | By Maria Scala


A Review of The Hive

Melissa Scholes Young’s novel, The Hive, explores how unraveling secrets impact a family.

Reviews | November/December 2021 | By Teresa Burns Murphy


A Review of Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself

Motherhood, Marchiano asserts, has the potential to take us down into the depths and return us to the surface, armed with insight.

Reviews | November/December 2021 | By Kimberly Lee


A Review of Letdown

Sonia Greenfield’s compelling collection of prose poems narrates a beautiful story of grief, gratitude, and imperfect motherhood.

Reviews | September/October 2021 | By Meghan Sterling


A Review of The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood

The essays in The Best Most Awful Job represent a myriad of motherhood truths from diverse authors whose stories will inspire and reassure all types of mothers.

Reviews | September/October 2021 | By Naomi Racz


A Review of The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs

Jennifer Berney’s memoir of her extended, arduous, and deeply thoughtful path to motherhood swells with the oceanic saudade of a woman who came of age already missing the baby she’d not yet had, and missing herself as the mother she’d not yet become.

Reviews | September/October 2021 | By Jeannine Ouellette


A Review of A Time to Seek: Meaning, Purpose and Spirituality at Midlife

Learning to navigate midlife and motherhood offers a jarring ambivalence for mothers who are trying to gain their footing in uncertain terrain.

Reviews | September/October 2021 | By Rudri Bhatt Patel


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