Review by papercraftalex - What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

A review by papercraftalex
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

challenging emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

I really enjoyed this collection. It includes a very diverse selection of writers writing about their relationships with their mothers, specifically what they don’t talk about. I think the selection and placements were very well balanced. There was a good mix between good mothers, bad mothers, and complicated mothers and how their children and other family members see their place as mothers.

I can’t pick a favorite story because I genuinely enjoyed all of them, but I can pick a favorite quote:

“There is a gaping hole perhaps for all of us, where our mother does not match up with ‘mother’ as we believe it’s meant to mean and all it’s meant to give us,” Pg 131, Lynn Steer Strong.

A review by papercraftalex What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

A review by papercraftalex
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate