We Were Mothers

We Were Mothers
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Publisher : Little A
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1503903613
ISBN-13 : 9781503903616
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis We Were Mothers by : Katie Sise

A brilliant, twisty novel about a missing woman, an unfaithful husband, and the dark secrets that will destroy two perfect families. A scandalous revelation is about to devastate a picturesque town where the houses are immaculate and the neighborhoods are tightly knit. Devoted mother Cora O'Connell has found the journal of her friend Laurel's daughter--a beautiful college student who lives next door--revealing an illicit encounter. Hours later, Laurel makes a shattering discovery of her own: her daughter has vanished without a trace. Over the course of one weekend, the crises of two close families are about to trigger a chain reaction that will expose a far more disturbing web of secrets. Now everything is at stake as they're forced to confront the lies they have told in order to survive.

Mothers Before

Mothers Before
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 211
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ISBN-10 : 9781683358879
ISBN-13 : 1683358872
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Mothers Before by : Edan Lepucki

Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more. In this remarkable collection, New York Times–bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving. Contributors include: Brit Bennett * Jennine Capó Crucet * Jennifer Egan * Angela Garbes * Annabeth Gish * Alison Roman * Lisa See * Danzy Senna * Dana Spiotta * Lan Samantha Chang * Laura Lippman * Jia Tolentino * Tiffany Nguyen * Charmaine Craig * Maya Ramakrishnan * Eirene Donohue * and many others

When We Were Colored

When We Were Colored
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Publisher : Iwp Book Publishing
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000060920188
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Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis When We Were Colored by : Eva Rutland

The African American novelist looks back at her day-to-day life raising her children in a racially segregated America.

Once We Were Sisters

Once We Were Sisters
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780143129295
ISBN-13 : 0143129295
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Once We Were Sisters by : Sheila Kohler

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE’S BEST NEW BOOKS “A searing and intimate memoir about love turned deadly.” —The BBC “An intimate illumination of sisterhood and loss.” —People When Sheila Kohler was thirty-seven, she received the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, was killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flew back to the country where she was born, determined to find answers and forced to reckon with his history of violence and the lingering effects of their most unusual childhood—one marked by death and the misguided love of their mother. In her signature spare and incisive prose, Sheila Kohler recounts the lives she and her sister led. Flashing back to their storybook childhood at the family estate, Crossways, Kohler tells of the death of her father when she and Maxine were girls, which led to the family abandoning their house and the girls being raised by their mother, at turns distant and suffocating. We follow them to the cloistered Anglican boarding school where they first learn of separation and later their studies in Rome and Paris where they plan grand lives for themselves—lives that are interrupted when both marry young and discover they have made poor choices. Kohler evokes the bond between sisters and shows how that bond changes but never breaks, even after death. “A beautiful and disturbing memoir of a beloved sister who died at the age of thirty-nine in circumstances that strongly suggest murder. . . . Highly recommended.” —Joyce Carol Oates

You Are the Mother of All Mothers

You Are the Mother of All Mothers
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Publisher : Conran Octopus
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 1940014190
ISBN-13 : 9781940014197
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis You Are the Mother of All Mothers by : Angela Miller

Every loss mama deserves to be reminded she is the mother of all mothers.

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
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Publisher : Harper Collins
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780061872358
ISBN-13 : 0061872350
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by : Cokie Roberts

“[A] paean to feminism and the solidarity of womenkind. . . . This book is a celebration of women in their various roles: mother, sister, civil rights advocate, consumer advocate, first-class mechanic, politician—which Roberts’ own mother once was.” —Washington Post “The perfect combination of powerful feelings and a modulated style.” — Los Angeles Times From the much beloved Cokie Roberts comes a revised and expanded tenth-anniversary paperback edition of the #1 New York Times Bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters—complete with new profiles.

Motherhood

Motherhood
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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9781627790789
ISBN-13 : 1627790780
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Motherhood by : Sheila Heti

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time Magazine) and the New York Times Bestseller Women in Clothes comes a daring novel about whether to have children. In Motherhood, Sheila Heti asks what is gained and what is lost when a woman becomes a mother, treating the most consequential decision of early adulthood with the candor, originality, and humor that have won Heti international acclaim and made How Should A Person Be? required reading for a generation. In her late thirties, when her friends are asking when they will become mothers, the narrator of Heti’s intimate and urgent novel considers whether she will do so at all. In a narrative spanning several years, casting among the influence of her peers, partner, and her duties to her forbearers, she struggles to make a wise and moral choice. After seeking guidance from philosophy, her body, mysticism, and chance, she discovers her answer much closer to home. Motherhood is a courageous, keenly felt, and starkly original novel that will surely spark lively conversations about womanhood, parenthood, and about how—and for whom—to live.

The Mothers

The Mothers
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780399184512
ISBN-13 : 0399184511
Rating : 4/5 (12 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mothers by : Brit Bennett

It is the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken beauty. Mourning her mother's recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor's son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. It's not serious-- until the pregnancy. As years move by, Nadia, Luke, and her friend Aubrey are living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver, and dogged by the constant, nagging question: What if they had chosen differently?

Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood

Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 100
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ISBN-10 : 1838444602
ISBN-13 : 9781838444600
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Mother Truths: Poems on Early Motherhood by : Karen McMillan

Mother Truths is a beautiful, funny, and raw collection of poetry about early motherhood. The perfect gift for expectant mothers and new mums.

The Mother of All Questions

The Mother of All Questions
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Publisher : Haymarket Books
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 9781608467204
ISBN-13 : 1608467201
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mother of All Questions by : Rebecca Solnit

A collection of feminist essays steeped in “Solnit’s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity” (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, “Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling—the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women’s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible” (The New Yorker). “There’s a new feminist revolution—open to people of all genders—brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Natural Causes “Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.” —Publishers Weekly “A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit’s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.” —Booklist