Reviews

Just as elements of nature shape the poems, examinations of fertility shape the artist-mother, a central figure in the collection.

The book expertly carries the weight of its dual subtitle, meeting at the intersection of race and sexuality.

Many mamas will relate to the pressures of getting child-rearing right and even the poignancy of concern about getting children to the end of each day alive.

Are momfluencers giving us unrealistic expectations, or showing us how to claim ownership of our work and voices?

The narrator in Naming the Ghost must decide if the ghost is the loss of a parent or the loss of who she was before motherhood.

Reading American Honey reminded this writer of how much common ground we mothers share.

Who gets to tell the story when a marriage falls apart?

Creative mothers need time. Not just hours in the day, but moments of insight or undoing or even a maternal clock. They also need boundaries. A creative mother must not give away “too many pieces of her being.”

In Screaming on the Inside, Grose offers an alternative perspective on my difficulties in combining home and market labor. Grose explains that our cultural “expectations of ideal mother and ideal worker are in an unresolvable conflict.”

The Long Devotion tackles the enormous task of celebrating all of motherhood: the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly.

The Women Could Fly is a novel rooted in the inherent messiness of parenthood: a mother cannot be known by her child separate from her mothering.