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challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0


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reflective medium-paced

4.0

An assortment of heartfelt essays about one’s mother: the good and the bad.  I think through these essays the authors will able to humanize their mothers and situation - especially the ones who grew up in abusive situations, they required taking on the perspective of their mother to write these essays.

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challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

This is a heavy read. As with any anthology or collection of essays with multiple authors, some things are going to resonate and others are not. I think there is genuinely something for everyone here, whether your relationship with your mother is good or great or toxic or non-existent. A lot of tough topics are handled very eloquently and it may be tough to get through at times but it’s a worthy read. I’d recommend this to most people, I think you’ll find something that sticks with you for a long time to come. I know I did. 

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dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

I really liked this. It made me reflect on my own relationship with my mom, and how to be okay with where it is. The last essay in particular really hit home for me. I would love to see another volume of this with a few younger authors (more millennial or gen-z) because I sometimes found it hard to relate to the older authors. Overall, great read. 

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