My Mother Gave Me the Moon
Title | My Mother Gave Me the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Becky Kelly |
Publisher | Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | 60 |
Release | 2003-04-02 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780740735196 |
A poetic evocation of all the special things a mother passes on to her child.
Moon, Have You Met My Mother?
Title | Moon, Have You Met My Mother? PDF eBook |
Author | Karla Kuskin |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2003-03-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780060271749 |
A collection of poems deals with such topics as pets, bugs, seasons, food, and senses.
When Women Were Birds
Title | When Women Were Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Terry Tempest Williams |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2013-02-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1250024110 |
In 54 chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals in a book that keeps turning around the question, "What does it mean to have a voice?"
My Mother Never Dies
Title | My Mother Never Dies PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Castillon |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 184 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780151014262 |
What binds mothers and daughters? What makes them clutch so hard they wound each other and love so hard they lose themselves? In the nineteen short tales that make up My Mother Never Dies, literary provocateur Claire Castillon dissects the darkest aspects of the relationship between mothers and daughters. A woman tries so hard to be friends with her daughter that she begins to revert to her own adolescence; another woman finds her mother engaged in an illicit affair with a man they both know too well; a daughter rattles off all the reasons why she's disgusted with her invalid mother but realizes through her haze of teenage hatred that she is losing the only person who tells her the truth. Stunning, shocking, unflinching, and ultimately tender, My Mother Never Dies forces us to look at the worst and best of mothers and daughters. Castillon won't let us avert our gaze from the terrible and true any more than from the beautiful and truea because it all reveals the depth of our need for each other. "
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About
Title | What My Mother and I Don't Talk About PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Filgate |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-08-11 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1982107359 |
“You will devour these beautifully written—and very important—tales of honesty, pain, and resilience” (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls) from fifteen brilliant writers who explore how what we don’t talk about with our mothers 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 that she was actually trying to write about 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. This gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. 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 acknowledging how what we couldn’t say for so long is a way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves. Contributions by 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.
My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon
Title | My Secret Mother, Lorna Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Richard De Mille |
Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780374217570 |
The adopted son of film director Cecil B. de Mille recounts his luxurious childhood in Hollywood and the story of his birthmother's life
Ladder to the Moon
Title | Ladder to the Moon PDF eBook |
Author | Maya Soetoro-Ng |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | 49 |
Release | 2017-06-13 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 076369343X |
Suhaila's wish to know her deceased grandmother is granted when a golden ladder appears at her window and Grandma Annie invites her on a journey to the moon, where they welcome people who are facing tragedy. Includes facts about the painting and woman who inspired the story.