Good mothers, bad mothers, revolutionary mothers, powerful mothers: it’s a mother’s day roundup to celebrate the woman who does it all.
TOMORROW THERE WILL BE APRICOTS by Jessica Soffer. Two women adrift in New York—an Iraqi Jewish widow and the latchkey daughter of a chef—who find each other and a new kind of family through their shared love of cooking.
THE CHOCOLATE MONEY by Ashley Prentice Norton. The story of the daughter of a glamorous chocolate heiress who must navigate a complex landscape of wealth, sex, and decadence through a privileged childhood in Chicago and an East Coast prep school, with only her narcissistic mother to guide her.
ARE YOU MY MOTHER? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be.
MARGARET FULLER: A New American Life by Megan Marshall. a fresh look at the trailblazing life of a great American heroine—Thoreau’s first editor, Emerson’s close friend, first female war correspondent, passionate advocate of personal and political freedom.
SEXY FEMINISM: A Girl’s Guide to Love, Success, and Style by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong and Heather Wood Rudúlph. A rallying call for a new brand of twenty-first century feminism—a feminism that is doable, cool, and, yes, even sexy.
THE UNRULY PASSIONS OF EUGENIE R. by Carole DeSanti. Love and war converge in this lush, epic story of a young woman’s coming of age during and after France’s Second Empire (1860–1871), an era that was absinthe-soaked, fueled by railway money and prostitution, and transformed by cataclysmic social upheaval.
WHEN WE WERE THE KENNEDYS by Monica Wood. Monica Wood’s moving memoir of the season in 1963 Mexico, Maine, as she, her mother, and her three sisters healed after the loss of their mill-worker father and then the nation’s loss of its handsome young Catholic president.
ALL THE LIGHT THERE WAS by Nancy Kricorian. Set amid the Armenian community in newly occupied Paris, All the Light There Was is a lyrical, finely wrought story about family loyalty, secret love, the many faces of oppression—and the many faces of resistance.
SHOUT HER LOVELY NAME by Natalie Serber. A collection of stories about the complicated and powerful ties between mothers and daughters.
Happy reading to all you mothers!
