Here With You: A Memoir of Love, Family, and Addiction by Kathy Wagner
The powerful story of a mother’s struggle to save her son from addiction—and the strength and hope for change that she found in her grief.
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What Remains of Elsie Jane by Chelsea Wakelyn
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: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood, Edited by Stacey May Fowles and Jen Sookfong Lee
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
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.
I Am the Big Heart: Poems by by Sarah Venart
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.
