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About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look In The Mirror
“Anne Burt and Christina Baker Kline asked women writers, some quite well-known, to reflect what they see in the mirror, mirror on the wall. It’s not always the fairest of them all. These women’s essays are poignant, wry, arch, redolent of memories cherished and inescapable, more revealing than any photograph could ever be, and most of all, irresistible.”
- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Cage of Stars
In About Face, twenty-three women write about the simple yet radical act of looking — really in the world and which examine the societal prism through which we view — and judge — each other, the contributors in this collection take the cultural conversation about beauty to a deeper level.
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Child of Mine: Original Essays on Becoming a Mother
“Powerful stories … The strength of these essays lies in their honesty and their focus on a variety of experiences, which will validate many women’s feelings of both joy and ambivalence in the early months of motherhood.”
-Publishers Weekly
From mothers-in-law to obstetricians, advice for new mothers is not hard to come by. But fellow voices – new mothers who talk frankly about doubting their own sanity, obsessing over their newborns’ health, wondering if they’ve made a mistake – are moving and rare. Candid, compassionate, often laugh-out-loud funny, the thirty writers in this unique collection create a community of shared experience no childcare manual can match. Here are women who know the secrets, triumphs, and inexpressible longings hidden in a mother’s heart … and reach out a caring hand to all of us as they speak their minds.
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Room to Grow: 22 Writers Encounter the Pleasures and Paradoxes of Raising Young Children
“The writing and the experiences are rich enough that one can even recommend the book to nonparent friends.”
-Kirkus Reviews
Harnessing the writing skill of a score of top contemporary writers, Christina Baker Kline has crafted a collection of essays that touches the core of modern parenthood. A remarkable exploration of the parenting experience, ROOM TO GROW eloquently discloses those moments of joy and heartache, closeness and separation, wonder and exasperation, amazement and exhaustion that parents encounter every day with their young children.
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The Conversation Begins: Mothers and Daughters Talk About Living Feminism
“These stories alone make fascinating reading, but the book goes deeper … Unsettlingly revealing.”
- The Women’s Review of Books
The first book to take an honest, in-depth look at the difficulties and rewards of being a feminist mother and to ask prominent feminist daughters whether their mother’s vision was successfully or unsuccessfully transmitted to them while growing up. In The Conversation Begins, Christina Baker Kline and Christina Looper Baker draw on talks with a diverse range of mothers who experienced the era of women’s liberation and their daughters, who are now reshaping the movement to suit their own needs. The book presents revealing first-person narratives based on interviews with more than 30 sets of mothers and daughters – comprising the heart of this testament to the strength of American feminism and the bond between feminist mothers and daughters.
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