Reviews

The M Word: Conversations about Motherhood by Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Christa Couture, Susan Olding, Amy Lavender Harris, Patricia Storms, Nancy Jo Cullen, Michele Landsberg, Maria Meindl, Alison Pick, Saleema Nawaz, Carrie Snyder, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang, Ariel Gordon, Kerry Ryan, Heather Birrell, Heidi Reimer, Julie Booker, Marita Dachsel, Nicole Dixon, Deanna McFadden, Julia Zarankin, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Priscila Uppal, Myrl Coulter, Kerry Clare

clarehitchens's review

4.0

The essays in this book are wonderful. Some made me laugh, and some moved me to tears. It's not entirely fair to judge a book by what it's not, so I won't dwell on it, but I would have loved at least one essay about becoming a mother to a child with a disability. And I'd love to see another volume deal with mothering as action as opposed to motherhood as a state of being. I didn't really find myself in these essays, but what is here is lovely.

anndouglas's review

5.0

The M Word offers an intelligent conversation about motherhood, providing a variety of perspectives on what it means to become a mother (or not). The book is honest and inclusive. Every woman will find her experience reflected somewhere in these stories.

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