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What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most by Elizabeth Benedict

On May 9, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In What My Mother Gave Me, women look at the relationships between mothers and daughters through a new lens: a daughter’s story of a gift from her mother that has touched her to the bone and served as a model, a metaphor, or a touchstone in her own life. The contributors of these thirty-one original pieces include Pulitzer Prize winners, perennial bestselling novelists, and celebrated broadcast journalists.

The Mothers: A Novel of Love, Family, and Motherhood by Jennifer Gilmore

On April 24, 2013, in Book Reviews, Fiction, by Editor

Poignant, raw, and insightful, Jennifer Gilmore’s third novel is an unforgettable story of love, family, and motherhood. With a “voice [that is] at turns wise and barbed with sharp humor” (Vanity Fair), Gilmore lays bare the story of one couple’s ardent desire for a child and their emotional journey through adoption.

The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption by Kathryn Joyce

On April 17, 2013, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Political, Social Studies, by Editor

Adoption has long been enmeshed in the politics of reproductive rights, pitched as a “win-win” compromise in the never-ending abortion debate. But as Kathryn Joyce makes clear in The Child Catchers, adoption has lately become even more entangled in the conservative Christian agenda.

If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mother – A Funny Look at Being an Adoptive Parent by Julia Sweeney

On April 6, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer and performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist. Happily for us, the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Poignant, provocative, and wise, this is a funny, and at times powerful, memoir by a woman living her life with originality and intelligence.

The Still Point of the Turning World, A Passionate Chronicle of the Last Months With Her Son by Emily Rapp

On March 16, 2013, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

The Still Point of the Turning World is the story of a mother’s journey through grief and beyond it. Rapp’s response to her son’s diagnosis was a belief that she needed to “make my world big”—to make sense of her family’s situation through art, literature, philosophy, theology and myth.

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy by Emily Bazelon

On February 20, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Psychology, by Editor

Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well.

The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More by Bruce Feiler

On February 19, 2013, in Book Reviews, Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

In The Secrets of Happy Families, New York Times bestselling author Bruce Feiler has drawn up a blueprint for modern families — a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports, and the military.

Brothers: On His Brothers and Brothers in History by George Howe Colt

On December 22, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

Illuminating and affecting, this book will be revelatory for any parent of sons, any sibling, anyone curious about how a man’s life can be molded by his brothers. Colt’s magnificent book is a testament to the abiding power of fraternal love.

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

On November 9, 2012, in Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Social Studies, by Editor

From the National Book Award–winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression comes a monumental new work, a decade in the writing, about family. In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so.

Too Good to Be True: A Memoir by Benjamin Anastas

On October 17, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, by Editor

When he was three, in the early 1970s, Benjamin Anastas found himself in his mother’s fringe-therapy group in Massachusetts, a sign around his neck: Too Good to Be True. The phrase haunted him through his life, even as he found the literary acclaim he sought after his 1999 novel, An Underachiever’s Diary, had made the smart set take notice. Too Good to Be True is his deeply moving memoir of fathers and sons, crushing debt and infidelity—and the first, cautious steps taken toward piecing a life back together.

The Mothers: A Novel of Love, Family, and Motherhood by Jennifer Gilmore

The Still Point of the Turning World, A Passionate Chronicle of the Last Months With Her Son by Emily Rapp

Too Good to Be True: A Memoir by Benjamin Anastas

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