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Synopsis
Who was your mother before she became a mother?
In this remarkable collection, New York Times bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving.
Contributors include:
Brit Bennett
Jennine Cap Crucet
Jennifer Egan
Angela Garbes
Annabeth Gish
Alison Roman
Lisa See
Danzy Senna
Dana Spiotta
Jia Tolentino
Edan Lepucki on PowellsBooks.Blog
I always listen to music when I write. It helps me focus, it shuts out the noise of the world, and it often puts me in an emotive space so that I can feel deeply for, and with, characters who are going through
a lot. While working, I make compilations of songs that best serve the fictive moment I’m wrestling with; some songs migrate...
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