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Mothers: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood
Mothers Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood Author:Katrina Kenison (Editor), Kathleen Hirsch (Editor) Mothers is a belated first: a collection of short stories about motherhood, by writers who are mothers. These twenty stories, each told from a mother's point of view, evoke every stage of the journey, from pregnancy and birth on through the childhood years, adolescence, and adulthood. Together, they depict the complexities... more » of mothering in America today as women are actually experiencing it. The works gathered here by Perri Klass, Laurie Colwin, Mary Gordon, Sue Miller, and fifteen others consitute a step toward a new "mothers" literature that puts to rest the long-held myth that has sepearated motherhood from a woman's creative activity. In these pages, American women from all walks of life single, married, and divorced; just out of their teens and well into their eighties; rich and poor; black and white grapple with the ultimate realties of motherhood: sacrifice and boundless joy, self-doubt and the miracles of the everyday. Wheather you are a new mother, a seasoned mother or a grandmother many times over, you will find yourself in this book. « less