Listen to your mother : what she said then, what we're saying now
Title:
Listen to your mother : what she said then, what we're saying now
Author:
Imig, Ann, editor.
Publication Information:
New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2015]
Physical Description:
246 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
"Irreverent, thought-provoking, hilarious, and edgy: a collection of personal stories celebrating motherhood, featuring #1 New York Times bestselling authors Jenny Lawson and Jennifer Weiner, and many other notable writers. Listen to Your Mother is a fantastic awakening of why our mothers are important, taking readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mother showcases the experiences of ordinary people of all racial, gender, and age backgrounds, from every corner of the country. This collection of essays celebrates and validates what it means to be a mother today, with honesty and candor that is arrestingly stimulating and refreshing. The stories are raw, honest, poignant, and sometimes raunchy, ranging from adoption, assimilation to emptying nests; first-time motherhood, foster-parenting, to infertility; single-parenting, LGBTQ parenting, to special-needs parenting; step-mothering; never mothering, to surrogacy; and mothering through illness to mothering through unsolicited advice. Honest, funny, and heart-wrenching, these personal stories are the collective voice of mothers among us. Whether you are one, have one, or know one, Listen to Your Mother is an emotional whirlwind that is guaranteed to entertain, amuse, and enlighten. "--
"The perfect Mother's Day gift from the rapidly growing national performance movement in celebration of the art, work, and beauty of motherhood"--
Language:
English
Contents:
Matryoshka dolls / What matters most / Meat grinder / It's always bad news / I felt like something / A year at the lake / Broken bowl / Mo'betta mama / Reach of a small moment / Becoming invisible / Motherhood off the beaten path / Job of motherhood / Not a princess / Threads / She knew it / Peanut butter and jelly / Good-bye app / More than an aunt, less than a mom / Confession jar / Unspeakable sacrifice / Shy / Mothering you, my son: in six chapters / What if / Swimsuit edition / Cookie jar / My mother the protector / Cocktail playdate dropout / Mother of all fathers / A much-needed slap in the face / Idiopathic / Nick's story / Prepare to be judged, and possibly stabbed. / Monkey, speak / Wondering / Be happy, have a good life, remember me / My mom fought the Nazis and won / I want to be a nothing / Mother: a multiplication lesson / All you need is lovey / Upside to down / Artichokes / Does your mom play drums? / Steam power / In praise of the other mother / Three little letters / Tiny bridge-maker / Bottle caps, apple trees, and hope / Pregnant again / Becoming da mommy / Mothering through the storm / Waiting for my kids to wish me a happy Mother's Day / Children ate my gratitude / Raised by lesbians: on my makeup-free mom, my fashion-challenged moments, and raising a Disney daughter in a feminist world / Orbits / Leaps and bounds / Hummingbird: a love letter to the mothers at church
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ISBN:
9780399169854
Format :
Book
