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*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 Selection by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*
Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.
As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.
While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything.
As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.” There’s relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn’t say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves.
Contributors include Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.
Read What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Michele Filgate 9781982107345 Books
"Michele Filgate has curated this beautiful collection of essays that explore a vast range of complex and challenging maternal relationships. Led by her own powerful piece about her struggle with a mother who stays married to the stepfather who abused her, it features heartbreaking, humorous and illuminating work by literary rockstars including Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado and Leslie Jamison.
Especially moving for me were the essays by longtime favorite authors Alexander Chee, Melissa Febos and Andre Aciman, as well as new-to-me authors Nayomi Munaweera and Brandon Taylor. I will look forward to continuing to read everything they write now."
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What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Michele Filgate 9781982107345 Books Reviews :
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Michele Filgate 9781982107345 Books Reviews
- Michele Filgate has curated this beautiful collection of essays that explore a vast range of complex and challenging maternal relationships. Led by her own powerful piece about her struggle with a mother who stays married to the stepfather who abused her, it features heartbreaking, humorous and illuminating work by literary rockstars including Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado and Leslie Jamison.
Especially moving for me were the essays by longtime favorite authors Alexander Chee, Melissa Febos and Andre Aciman, as well as new-to-me authors Nayomi Munaweera and Brandon Taylor. I will look forward to continuing to read everything they write now. - I absolutely love this.
A tremendous, bright, beautiful list of contributors all telling such complex, thoughtful stories about their mothers.
Made my brain whir about my own mom, the stories she has to tell, and the stories I choose to tell myself about her.
Seriously glorious. Read it. - Stop whining about what was wrong with your mother and try to figure out what's wrong with you. A tired subject. Creative non-fiction is always welcome, but this doesn't make the mark.
