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In Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Jessi Klein's second collection, she hilariously explodes the cultural myths and impossible expectations around motherhood and explores the humiliations, poignancies, and possibilities of midlife. Klein explores this stage of life in all its cruel ironies, joyous moments, and bittersweetness.
The best-selling author and Emmy Award-winning writer and producer hilariously destroys the cultural myths and impossible...
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Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the best, most awful job.
The Best, Most Awful Job brings together twenty bold and brilliant women to speak about motherhood in all its raw, heart-wrenching, gloriously impossible forms.
Overturning assumptions, breaking down myths and shattering stereotypes, these writers challenge our perceptions of what it means to be a mother - and ask you to listen....
3) Four Fathers
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A collection of flash fiction (Tanzer), bookend short stories (Williams), a novella (Housley), and poetry written from father to daughter (Pawelek), Four Fathers is a hard-hitting definitive work that seeks to uncover what it takes to be a parent. These subjects are not easy, and through these introspective fathers, often agonized by the daily tensions of care-taking, we come to appreciate our own experiences more fully, or, at least prepare ourselves...
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The experience of motherhood is monumental, yet rarely discussed in connection with literary or creative life. How do we navigate the twin devotions of love and art? How does motherhood disrupt the creative process? How does it enhance it?
“Good Mom on Paper” is a collection of twenty essays that goes beyond the clichés to explore the fraught, beautiful, and complicated relationship between motherhood and creativity. These texts disclose the...
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When Doc Bascom tries to show his grade school sons how to climb a huge sycamore, he ends up dropping 12 feet flat-out on his back. Stunned, he finally gasps, "So that's how it's done." And in that moment, he becomes an emblem for all fathers-trying to lead the way, failing, then getting up and trying again.
This "climbing lesson" is just one of 40 playful, sometimes poignant stories by award-winning author Tim Bascom, who illustrates the special...
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Motherhood, the good, the bad, and the boldfaced. A collection of honest essays about the hardest and best job in the world. Women from all stages of life contribute with stories that will make you laugh, make you cry, and make all mothers feel part of the greater tapestry of life.
7) Cleave
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At 21, Holly Pelesky gets pregnant after her second time having sex. She decides to place her daughter up for adoption and then move far away from her fundamentalist Christian upbringing to start a new life. Cleave is a tight collection of epistolary creative nonfiction that examines the ambiguous grief of being a birth mother caught in the momentum of adulthood and the constant choices that come along with it. In these letters to the daughter she...
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In this groundbreaking collection, twenty-seven smart, gutsy writers explode the clichés and tell the real stories about what it's like to be a grandmother in today's world. Among the contributors:
Judith Viorst exposes the high-stakes competition for Most Adored Nana.
Anne Roiphe learns to keep her mouth shut and her opinions to herself.
Elizabeth Berg marvels at witnessing her child give birth to her child.
Judith Guest confesses her failed attempt...
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Scores of quotes, sayings, and speculations on motherhood - from Roman poet Virgil to comedienne Phyllis Diller - comprise this delightful and entertaining compendium. Shakespeare is quoted, as are Sophocles, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Thomas Jefferson, Victor Hugo, Napoleon, Edna Ferber, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Gloria Vanderbilt, and many other writers, statesmen, biblical figures, movie stars, and more. A wonderful little tome for browsing or for use...
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Wise, wry, and witty essays on fatherhood from Chris Erskine, the beloved columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
"Charming, well written, concise, and to the point. Perfect for anyone who enjoys stories of fatherhood."
— Library Journal
Life is never peaceful in Chris Erskine's house, what with the four kids, 300-pound beagle, chronically leaky roof, and long-suffering wife, Posh.
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In support of tribal efforts to protect the Bears Ears, Native writers bear testimony to the fragile and essential nature of this sacred landscape in America's remote red rock country. Through poem and essay, these often-ignored voices explore the ways many native people derive tradition, sustenance, and cultural history from the Bears Ears.
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Dysfunctional families, introspective protagonists, secrets, lies, tragedy and historical baggage crop up in several, but the key issue here is the voice. The settings of Greece and Australia, the varied perspectives of all ages, the rich layers of story, world, and characters you care about so much you want to reach in there and hold/shake/strangle them. Jessica Bell is an exceptional writer who adds more than literary skill to her work. There's...
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"Dad Bod is a brisk, humorous collection of essays that redefines the mythos of fatherhood depicted in film, television, and video games. What do dads tell us about the world? Not your real dad, but dads in general. Dads are everywhere. Lurking in our movies, television shows, and video games. Spouting homespun wisdom and atrocious jokes, wallowing in might-have-beens and back-in-my-days, or rigidly defining the status quo. These fictional dads fuel...
14) Linea Nigra
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Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea Nigra is an intimate exploration of childbearing from the celebrated author of On Lighthouses. Drawing from a wide range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the influential indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez, Barrera's treatise is as philosophical as it is candid. It is a book that clarifies motherhood, but...
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In the United States, more than 15 million women are parenting children on their own, either by circumstance or by choice. Too often these moms who do it all have been misrepresented and maligned. Not anymore. In We Got This, seventy-five solo mom writers tell the truth about their lives-their hopes and fears, their resilience and setbacks, their embarrassments and triumphs. Some of these writers' names will sound familiar, like Amy Poehler, Anne...
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Wise and funny, touching and true, What We're Teaching Our Sons is for anyone who has ever wondered how to be a grown up. We're teaching our sons about money; about heartbreak, and mountains, and philosophy. We're teaching them about the big bang and the abominable snowman and what happens when you get struck by lightning. We're teaching them about the toughness of single mothers, and the importance of having friends who've known you longer than you've...
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"I've got some stuff with my parents, and my parents got some stuff with their parents. And while most times I've been able to move past those grievances, there was also an issue with reconciling with my father. So, I asked the Big Man Upstairs for one more try, one more time to see if I could have something with my dad, a cordial ground to walk on.” In November of 2020, the "Big Man Upstairs" presented Mike Liguori with a phone call and an awkward...
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In a society where men – fathers - are little celebrated, Shiloh offers a solution.
Men are often categorized as breadwinners, providers, superheroes, and our protectors. In a world, that typically only celebrates the surface qualities of a man, I would like to challenge you to dive deeper with me. Close your eyes and take a deep breath as you reflect on what your good father or positive father figure meant to you. How does this man show up in...
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(M)othering is a universally understood phenomenon that speaks to the act of becoming something unexpected and entirely outside ourselves. And this book is a collection of writing and art about that. 56 contributors illuminate the kind of gritty, body mind soul transformations that only the mothering myth can evoke. Their work will take you to wonder and wildness, kindness, beauty, grief, love.
These writers and artists show us what it means to...
20) DNA
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What can go wrong when an ambitious man accepts a promotion overseas without consulting his wife? Much more than Russell Majors anticipates. With a thriving career, a comfortable home, and two healthy sons, this new chapter is an unwelcome surprise for Amoy Majors.
A move abroad means physical exams, biometric screenings, and embassy interviews. All normal requirements or they would be, if she didn't believe, they might stir a hornet's nest.
When...
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