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Catherine Cho’s Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness explores postpartum psychosis with an emphasis on trauma and cultural underpinnings.

My arm aches from holding my cellphone to my ear with so many calls from her today. I lean into the armrest. I don’t tell her that I’m also tired, tired of worrying that she will die alone, without me, with only a stranger in a protective suit and an N95 facemask to comfort her.

Stack’s memoir, Women’s Work, chronicles the role of domestic helps in raising her child during her early parenting years abroad and the stark reality of these women’s sacrifices.

“I cannot teach anyone to be an artist, but then I don’t have to because everyone is already an artist.”

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is an anthology that highlights marginalized voices and their perspectives of motherhood and life.

“This was my hope—to join in a larger conversation about miscarriage—and I’m really touched that readers have found my work.”

Viable is the poetic account of one mother’s halting, often heartbreaking, and hopeful steps to motherhood.

She wails and screams, “I hate all of you! I wish you would die and go to hell!” and throws hand weights and kicks. She bites and slashes skin. She is autistic. She is intense. I love her.

You send Brian out with a shopping list of 37 Googled home remedies for morning sickness. He returns with the wrong brand of vitamin B6 and no hypnotist.

My nightly glasses of wine soon became empty bottles hidden in my endless quest for oblivion.

I frequently find myself gritting my teeth, just trying to get through a period of time–the work day, a stage in my children’s development, an entire political regime.