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Reviews

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


A Review of Fruit Geode

Mothers are frequently judged and shamed for the smallest perceived infractions, such as not putting a hat on the baby or letting a toddler have screen time. In “The Monastery…

Reviews | December 2018 | By Kandra Strauss-Riggs


A Review of The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

From the moment a woman thinks about motherhood, she must make choices for, and about, her child. She chooses to try to conceive or continue an unexpected pregnancy. She decides…

Reviews | November 2018 | By Lindsey Stefan


A Review of Woman, Running Late, in a Dress

Each relationship, each interaction with others, molds us in ways that are both ordinary and sublime. We weave those experiences, old and new, into our concepts of self, and we…

Reviews | November 2018 | By Lori Duffy Foster


Review of Motherhood Reimagined: When Becoming a Mother Doesn’t Go as Planned

When she realizes that she will not be able to use her own eggs, she questions the importance of having a genetic connection to her child. This process breeds anxiety,…

Reviews | October 2018 | By Jamie Wendt


A Review of What She Was Saying

The flow of these short stories, flash fiction pieces, and poems is smooth. Even though the pieces were written across decades, they were brought together in an order that makes…

Reviews | October 2018 | By Rhonda Havig


A Review of And Now We Have Everything

O’Connell’s account of her transformation into a first-time mother and, consequently, a better feminist is an honest and intimate addition to the new mother literary genre, written with endearing intimacy,…

Reviews | September 2018 | By Cindy Fey


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