A History of Holding

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>A History of Holding</em> explores what it means to be a human while raising one. </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Described by </span><span style=background-color: initial; color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ashlee Gadd</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Create Anyway) </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>as a book to savor cling to and gift to every mother you know this poetry collection captures the complicated beauty of motherhood-the ache of exhaustion the wonder of small moments and the way time bends and blurs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From desperate search histories to dancing in a sun-kissed kitchen each poem is a mirror an exhale a recognition that motherhood is not only about giving life but learning how to hold it all: our children our memories ourselves.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lyrical and unflinching </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A History of Holding</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> gives language to the beautiful and brutal work of becoming and to the quiet truth that what we hold is never meant to stay the same.</span></p><p class=ql-align-center></p><p></p>