Examining the ceaseless labour of motherhood, the stigma of death by drug poisoning, and the allure of magical thinking in the wake of tragedy, What Remains of Elsie Jane is a heart-splitting reminder that grief is born from the depths of love.
Good Mom on Paper is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity.
Can’t Help Falling: A Long Road to Motherhood by Tarah Schwartz, is about one woman’s perilous journey toward motherhood—toward mothering her son.
Sarah Venart’s “I Am the Big Heart” is a love story to the emotional self–this heart is tender, but it also has a savage bite.
A Womb in the Shape of a Heart is the intimate story of Gallant’s journey through miscarriage and motherhood, holding space for the complicated paradoxes of grief and gratitude, of life and death, and the impenetrable depths of a mother’s love.
When I first received this review copy in the mail, I wasn’t sure what to …