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Reviews

Cover of The Night She Went Missing

Finding More Than What Is Vanished: A Review of The Night She Went Missing

Those who love reading a good page-turner will find plenty to captivate their attention in The Night She Went Missing.

Reviews | July/August 2022 | By Angélique Jamail


Book cover of Forbidden City

Living Like a Hero: A Review of Forbidden City

Mei wants to “live like a hero,” even at the cost of an identity that she’s surrendered before possession.

Reviews | July/August 2022 | By Lolita Pierce


Truth in Pregnancy: A Review of Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Kid Gloves is a graphic novel that deals with anxiety, depression, severe nausea, doctors who don’t listen, and loneliness.

Reviews | July 2022 | By Jennifer Cox


Standing Up for Mothers: A Review of Knocked Down: A High Risk Memoir

Life is often a messy escapade, and we rarely have the luxury of dealing with one gut punch before the next one is there to knock us on our keisters again. Which just makes the title of the memoir, Knocked Down, all the more apt.

Reviews | May/June 2022 | By Mikhal Weiner


Impossible Standards, Unspeakable Goals: A Review of The School for Good Mothers

Though it is clear the book is set in a kind of vaguely dystopian world, with surveillance and expectations on steroids, it feels like a place we are doomed to end up if we don’t start dialing down the expectations forced upon  mothers.

Reviews | May/June 2022 | By Cindy DiTiberio


We Get to Be Everything: Life with Motherhood in Slowly/Suddenly

It’s heartbreak and fear in the face of possible joy. For anyone who is facing fertility challenges, Blevins’s attempts to communicate these feelings is a gift. 

Reviews | May/June 2022 | By Nina Smilow


Life’s Inevitable and Inescapable Ironies: A Review of How Far I’ve Come

Each story in How Far I’ve Come is a gem, glittery with wit, polished with nuance, steeped in life’s inevitable, inescapable ironies.

Reviews | March/April 2022 | By Dorothy Rowena Rice


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


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