The Mother Book Author:Liz Smith A compendium of trivia and grandeur concerning Mothers, motherhood, and maternity. From the sublime to the ridiculous, past, present, and future. Includes anecdotes about mothers of the famous, infamous, and unfamous, as well as obscure facts, fancies, overblown sentimentalists, sociological speculations, jokes, japes, jibes, poems, songs, graff... more »iti, literature, pieties, profanities and curiosities about MOTHER.« less