This remarkable collection of twenty stories about motherhood by
writers who are mothers evokes every stage of the journey, from
pregnancy and birth through the childhood years, adolescence, and
adulthood. Together they depict the complexity of mothering in
America today as woman are actually experience it.
The works gathered here constitute a step toward a new mothers
literature that puts to rest the long-held myth that has separated
motherhood from a woman's creativity. In these pages women from all
walks of life, single, married, divorced or just out of their teens
and well into their eighties, rich and poor, black and white,
grapple with the realities of motherhood - sacrifice and boundless
joy, self-doubt and miracles of the every day. Whether you are a
new mother, a seasoned mother, or a grandmother many times over you
will find yourself in this book.
Contributors: Mary Grimm, Laurie Colwin, Perri Klass, Kate
Braverman, Molly Giles, Mary Gordon, Ronnie Sandroff, Roxana
Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Marian Thurm, Paula K. Gover, Marsha
Lee Berkman, Melissa Pritchard, Jane Shapiro, Julia Whitty, Alice
Elliott Dark, J. California Cooper, Sue Miller, Eileen Fitzgerald.
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