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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0


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emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.5


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dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.75


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challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.25


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emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5


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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.25

I think this book resonates best with people who have already reflected a bit on their relationship with their mothers.
Also, not every essay will be relatable. We don’t all experience the same things, so it’s only natural some essays will touch you very profoundly and others not at all. That said, don’t discredit the essays you can’t relate to as bad writing.

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dark emotional hopeful reflective

4.5


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emotional reflective fast-paced

2.25

 
This collection started strong and waned from there. The ones I enjoyed are the only ones I remember (Alexander Chee and Alexander Chee). I wonder if each contributor got to pick the narrator who would read their piece, as I didn't care for a couple of the voices.

 

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emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0


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challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

An emotional and insightful read. So many complex thoughts around mothers, motherhood, and what we owe to our mothers in being alive. I liked some essays more than others (Carmen Maria Machado and Brandon Taylor are my standouts again!! They keep doing collections together and it should definitely stay that way). A strong collection and such an intriguing theme binding these all together.

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