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Listen to Your Mother: What she said then, what we?re saying now
Listen to Your Mother What she said then what were saying now Author:Ann Imig The perfect Mother?s Day gift: A collection of essays celebrating mothers—how they love us, raise us, nudge us, shape us, and support us no matter what. Based on the sensational national performance movement, Listen to Your Mother is an anthology of personal stories about mothers—being one, having one, losing one, and everything in between. ... more »In the tradition of Bitch in the House, these essays celebrate and validate what it means to be a mother today. These contributors offer personal stories on topics that range from adoption, assimilation, emptying nests, first-time motherhood, never-motherhood, foster-parenting, infertility, loss, rock-and-roll parenting, single-parenting, LGBTQ parenting, special-needs parenting, step-mothering, surrogacy, mothering through illness, mothering through unsolicited advice—all with wit and humor, in prose as poetic and powerful as it is honest and frank. Their stories go straight to the heart of motherhood. « less