Description: What My Mother and I Don't Talk About : Fifteen Writers Break the Silence, Paperback by Filgate, Michele (EDT), ISBN 1982107359, ISBN-13 9781982107352, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US '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.
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Book Title: What My Mother and I Don't Talk about : Fifteen Writers Break the Silence
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Parenting / Parent & Adult Child, Women, Women Authors, Parenting / Motherhood, Essays
Genre: Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 8.1 Oz
Author: Michele Filgate
Item Length: 8.4 in
Book Series: What We Don't Talk about Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
