Book Description
Just in time for Mother's Day, a group of America's celebrated literary
women have come together to tackle a topic close to their hearts: Mom.
These highly personal yet often universal stories offer windows into
those influential mother-daughter moments that have forever shaped the
lives And perspectives of the writers, powerful women–authors,
spokespeople, scholars, teachers, and some mothers themselves.
Jonis
Agee's mother haunts her daughter's plumbing. Tai Coleman's mother
struggled to raise five children on her own wits and a single paycheck.
Heid Erdrich's mother showed her daughter both the falsity and the
truth in the cliche of the "Indian Princess." Sheila O'Connor's mother,
who ran a road construction company, was not like other mothers. Ka
Vang's mother dodged the hand grenades that her husband's first wife
threw on her wedding day. Morgan Grayce Willow's mother drove home late
at night after selling cosmetics to farm wives as her daughter rode
shotgun.
In true tales of startling candor and rich
insight, these and many other talented writers reflect on the women who
raised them, revealing hard work and hardship, successes and failures,
love and anger–mothers and daughters.
Kathryn Kysar, the author of Dark Lake,
teaches writing in Minneapolis. She has received fellowships from the
National Endowment for the Humanities, Norcroft, the Anderson Center
for Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Banfill-Locke Center for the
Arts.
