Reviews

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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