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There is no Mother, a man said

sex comes and goes, a light / switched on and off

At the red light / I can see inside

The street signs / appear and disappear / one diagnosis at a time.

Her song was the black throat of the chickadee, / hopping from limb to limb

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.

I know that people can be led, by invitation, to notice the world and to relish it.

Novelist Nicola Harrison shares the inspiration for her latest novel, The Show Girl, and why she loves historical fiction.