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Reviews

A Review of The Beginning of Everything: The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself

I read The Beginning of Everything during the early weeks of the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, and it was interesting to note the parallels between the period…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Andrea Lani


A Review of Grown and Flown

For parents of high school students and college students, this book might become a bible of sorts. I know for myself with three kids currently in this age category, I…

Reviews | May 2020 | By Denise Guibord


A Review of The Hard Tomorrow

The Hard Tomorrow, a stunningly detailed black-and-white graphic novel, ponders over the “readiness” for parenthood. The answer is a complicated blend of politics and naïve belief, but it emerges in…

Reviews | March 2020 | By DW McKinney


A Review of Counting by Sevens

Ann E. Wallace’s debut collection of poems,Counting by Sevens, is, at first glance, about the wounds we all bear as humans. Some of these wounds are borne publicly, such as…

Reviews | March 2020 | By Juli Anna Herndon


A Review of Hail and Farewell

Hail and Farewell is a story told poetically by an increasingly likable narrator, each small, vivid piece adding its own unapologetically human element to the narrative. It’s a story and…

Reviews | January 2020 | By Libby Maxey


A Review of Motherhood So White

Through the lens of Austin’s family’s story, Motherhood So White is also the thoroughly researched how-to guide everyone raising a Black child needs. The book covers race and racism as…

Reviews | January 2020 | By Deesha Philyaw


A Review of You Are No Longer in Trouble

You Are No Longer in Trouble does not sugar-coat or put a movie shine on the life of a teacher. It also does not try to be shocking or bleak…

Reviews | November 2019 | By Rhonda Havig


A Review of The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom

Open the pages of The Four Ugliest Children in Christendom and enter another world. In this intriguing, provocative poetry collection, Welsch confronts societal expectations, the ethics of research, the pressures…

Reviews | November 2019 | By Marjorie Maddox


A Review of The World is Our Classroom

“Most people believe that raising children is tantamount to settling down, living conventionally, and avoiding danger,” Ross explains in her brisk and bracing tone. “That is not the vision Todd…

Reviews | September 2019 | By Cindy Fey


A Review of The Body at a Loss

Cati Porter’s latest poetry collection, The Body at a Loss, deals with the devastating toll of illness, not only on the body, but also on the mind of…

Reviews | September 2019 | By Kyra Robinov


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


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