omnomicons 's review for:

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence by Michele Filgate

4.25

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Hand me a book about mother-daughter relationships, and you can be sure I’ll cry reading it. Something about being the daughter of a mother is so powerfully difficult and emotional. This collection of essays tapped into that emotional core so well. There are essays about loving your mother, hating your mother, and loving your mother while hating  her. The selection of writers is diverse in identity but not in talent, and every essay felt purposefully selected to be in this anthology. I wish it was longer!