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

emotional reflective

3.0

a good collection of essays that just didn’t hit me in the way i expected them to. i didn’t feel the emotional pull i wanted from such a vulnerable topic. however, the essays shared here are deeply personal and reflective, and i appreciated the centering of what it is to be both a woman and a mother, and how these identities interact with each other in a myriad of ways, especially in the context of the traumas and harm women experience being transformed into the ways they mother their children, and how their children have to come to terms with that reality