A review by celestelipkes
The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit

2.0

2 1/2 stars. A majority of these essays felt like blog posts, consisting of a litany of recent events and without a clear or compelling shape of thought. I don’t disagree with Solnit’s conclusions, but the way she arrives at them is often disorganized, repetitive (she quotes the same excerpt from her own book, Wanderlust, two times!) and uninteresting. The most successful essay is the short first and title piece about the phenomenon of asking women about their plans to have children. Otherwise, I would skip this.