Mother: Mother

Perhaps our most powerful and significant emblem Motherhood forms the very fabric of our lives. Mothers leave enduring memories in our hearts and influence our culture -- art theater film literature and television. In this exceptional collection some of todays most prestigious and gifted writers come together to share their personal reflections on motherhood. From a womans choice to become a mother to the intimate inner workings of a mothers relationship with her children the full rich cycle of motherhood is brought exquisitely to life. These stories poems and essays -- some never before published -- are both real and imagined and penned by daughters sons...and mothers. From Amy Tans essay on a first-generation American mother and her acculturated daughter to Nora Ephrons account of living under the aegis of a career mother who drank as hard as she worked; from Maya Angelous moving poem epitomizing the strength of a welfare mother to Mary Higgins Clarks poignant essay about her wild Irish mother; and from Joyce Carol Oatess haunting tale in which a woman finds herself visited by the ghosts of unborn children to Laurie Colwins stirring story revealing a womans thoughts and feelings as shes about to give birth this collection will have you by turns laughing crying and waxing nostalgic. Whether youre far from your mother just a door away or long for the days when your relationship was simpler this remarkable anthology promises to touch your heart calm your spirit and remain forever in your memory.