You will devour these beautifully written--and very important--tales of honesty, pain, and resilience (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls ) from Fifteen brilliant Writers who explore how What we don\'t Talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse.
McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, Andr Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison..
Contributions by Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L.
There\'s relief in acknowledging how What we couldn\'t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves.
As Filgate writes, Our mothers are our first homes, and that\'s why we\'re always trying to return to them.
And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything .
Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother.
Andr Aciman writes about What it was like to have a deaf mother.
In Cathi Hanauer\'s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her Mother that isn\'t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father.
Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect Mother was before ever becoming a mom.
This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others.
It took her more than a decade to realize that she was actually trying to write about how this affected her relationship with her mother.
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather.
You will devour these beautifully written--and very important--tales of honesty, pain, and resilience (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls ) from Fifteen brilliant Writers who explore how What we don\'t Talk about with our mothers affects us, for better or for worse
