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Expecting Something Else by A.M. O'Malley

ericapopple's review

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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

jessicaseptember's review

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

helmagnusdottir's review

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5.0

This book was a charming and bittersweet gut punch. The three sections intermingle stories of a motherhood/childhood punctuated by cars, boyfriends, and escaping. I brought to it a lens of my own childhood, and each line was a difficult joy. I am excited to see what AM writes next, because her words bound off the page. The addition of erasure poems from a book about mothers punctuates these with a world of reclaimed truths.
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