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I don't think this was the non-fiction for me. While these stories are all so important to tell, read and be aware of in general, I did not enjoy my reading experience. I think it was the short essay format. I kept feeling like I was missing a part of the story.

readwriterach's review against another edition

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4.0

I could read 100 more essays about writers and their relationships with their moms.

I went into this book coloring my expectations by my own experiences with my mother, but after finishing I feel like my worldview has widened. This book has an incredible balance of love and abuse, hope and sorrow. All of the writers are so talented, and their experiences were both relatable and shocking.

I deeply recommend listening to the audiobook. Well recorded and just a fantastic listening experience.

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dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

“I have learned that healing is possible. That we can make lives we couldn’t even have imagined when we were little and that we can carry the little ones who we were into these new and luminous lives” (Munaweera).

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emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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