SUB TITLE:Real World Reflections on Growing into Motherhood
The tale of Zara’s search for her birth mother and her path to recovery is riveting, as are the stories of many people sharing her past.
Rita Dove recalls the box of polish that inspired her to paint her nails in the stripes and polka dots she wears to this day. Lisa See writes about the gift of writing from her mother, Carolyn See.
Zoépulls out her iPhone, and for the next three minutes, grandmother and granddaughter are hunched over the two-inch screen, laughing to the point of tears at Sandra Lee's “Angel Food Harvest Cake for Kwanzaa.
Laurenne Sala's heartwarming text, accompanied by New York Times bestselling artist Robin Preiss Glasser's charming illustrations, creates a sweet and intimate look at the powerful bond between mother and child from pregnancy to birth and ...
Nancy Friday shows that the key to a woman's character lies in her relationship with her mother - that first binding relationship which becomes the model for so much of women's adult relationships with men, and whose fetters constrain her ...
At once a treasured Mother's Day gift and a year-round "I love you," this book will delight parents and children in a celebration of a supremely meaningful relationship.
Relates how the author and her husband adopted a six-month-old boy from South Korea and the lessons they had to learn as parents, including how to incorporate aspects of another culture and how to discuss birth parents with their son.
Compelling, candid and wise, What Mother Never Told Me is an unforgettable story about the power of our pasts to define us—and sometimes to hold us back.
Know the Mother explores the intersection of race and gender in vignettes that pull you in and then are gone in an instant. Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.
I listen, make the necessary soothing or would-be helpful comments and have the modesty to give no indication that my own life at the moment seems a dull waste, a vale of (unshed) tears, an empty vessel, a froth of frustration .