![]() Mom wants to move in, and despite a troubled relationship, her daughter, Grace, allows it. After all, without darkness there is no light. ![]() And cheers to these books, which are not afraid to aim a spotlight on the dark underbelly of motherhood. Cheers to the mothers we are-to whomever we care for in our lives. ![]() As opposed to realizing that we and they, like everyone else, are struggling to do the right thing, the best things we can, often under trying, difficult-or worse-circumstances. It leaves us with an image that is often impossible to achieve, or leaves us with a feeling of “less than” when we consider the mothers in our lives. Shields penned a memoir exploring some of the fallout. I just watched the Brooke Shields’ documentary, Pretty Baby, and it demonstrated to me how damaging that ideal can be. These are no pastoral, beatific reads of Woman blooming with the life she’s about to bestow, then cradle through years of selfless giving. Point being that every one of us has been touched in some way b y the concept of motherhood, whether in real life or theory.īut the books you’ll find below do not exemplify that theoretical concept of mother in the way our media often depicts it or our own idealized perception creates. ![]() And do I have some books for you! Or for a mother in your life, or someone you think of as a mother, or someone who has or once had a mother-and I could go on. ![]()
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