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Motherland by Elissa Altman

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Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing by Elissa Altman Motherland is the type of memoir I absolutely love, not constrained by chronology, it works the way memory works when we try to make meaning of the past and the to understand the most fundamental relationships.…
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Family Reunion Just Cuz

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This essay was originally published on Medium.com. My earliest memories of family outside the nucleus of my mother and father was my mother's family: her father, three siblings, and my cousins.  My eldest uncle and his first wife had three children and we were often sandwiched…
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Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Normal People by Sally Rooney A reminder of how tiresome young relationships are. It wore me out. I stuck with the book and enjoyed some of the turns of phrase, but in real life I would have walked away from the mess a lot earlier. I was anxious to love this book given the hype,…
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All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg

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All This Could Be Yours by Jami Attenberg A tale of a dysfunctional family that I gobbled up. In Attenberg’s latest novel we witness the fall out of a terrible father and an equally terrible, albeit not criminal, mother. What ensues is a weird kind of pseudo vigil while waiting…
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Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

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Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson What beautiful language and innovative structure. Red At The Bone and specifically the character of Iris was illuminating and thought provoking. This was a short read chock full of poetic language. A huge fan of books about the cycles of motherhood…
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Patience: The Ocean as my Teacher

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This essay was originally posted on Medium.com. John and I flew down to the Dominican Republic to spend New Year’s with friends at Casa de Campo. It was the afternoon of our arrival and we were enjoying cold drinks and their view of the sun lowering over the sea when I reached…
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Daughter of a Promise

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The Nine

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Eden: A Novel

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