What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence (1) (What We Don't Talk About)

In my opinion, the setup of the book is what made the entirety of the read so impactful for me. For the respective authors to condense their relations with their mothers in only a few pages left me stuck with a number of emotions. I felt more connected to certain authors but that was to be expected. Overall I throughly enjoyed the book and would recommend it for those of us who share similar stories.side note: not all of the stories are bad or “trauma”ridden, some share beautiful stories of maternal love

Ordered this book after it popped up on my suggested. Since it’s a book full of essays from different writers, it’s one of those that you can pick up every once and a while to read. You definitely don’t have to commit to reading the whole thing before moving on to something else. Loved the stories and the messages behind them. Great read.

Mothers, mothering, relationships with mothers, it’s all hard. It’s hard to process, live through, survive sometimes even if you’ve got the best mother who ever lived. It’s a relationship that you grow up with in more ways than one as it’s constantly changing. This was a good, relatable, sad and truthful read in a way I can’t be about my own mother. I appreciate the emotional labor others were willing to go through that I won’t touch personally.

There are as many mother/child relationships as there are mothers and children, and each is unique to that child. My memories of my relationship with my mother,are different than what my siblings memories are because we come to the table with our own expectations at our own time in family history. In this collection of essays edited by Michele Filgate, I can connect to what many of what these authors are expressing. One of the essayists, Brandon Taylor writes, "I couldn't leave space for her to be a person. I think ultimately, other people aren't real to us until they are suffering or gone. That's when the imagination begins to work, trying to sort things out, trying to get them right, to understand them." That certainly has been true for me. It has been ll years since my mom died, and although I know in my heart she loved me and I loved her, I don't know that she knew how to love me, nor did I know how to best love her.In Leslie Jamison's essay, she writes, "It allowed me to see that both she and I have always been more complicated than the binaries I've constructed for us to inhabit...we get so used to the stories we tell about ourselves." I believe each of us is a story, other people add to mine and so do I.My story about my mother is still and probably will always be evolving.

I liked the idea of this book but it was not what I expected. A few stories were good and others were boring and confusing. A few I had to skip because the authors didn’t make any sense to me.

10/10 recommend this book, it’s so darn good! I deal with a ton of childhood/mother trauma and becoming a new mom myself, this book made me feel validated. I even told my therapist about this book & told her to tell all her clients, invigorating stories!!!

I love the versatility in this book. Definitely recommend to others.

Very good book!

The product arrived on time. But the content is what is important, I liked a lot the book. Motherhood is a vast thing and can be experienced in many many ways. Some stories moved me to tears and others make me laugh, overall I learned a lot.

I was so looking forward to this book believing it was a number of essays by different writers regarding relationships with their mothers. Instead I have a novel called One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle that I have already read! I thought maybe I misunderstood and there is a series of these books but I don't think so. I enjoyed it the first time but do not intend to read it again. So disappointed I did not receive what had been promoted obviously incorrectly.

So many essays had me in tears but it was awesome to read from another person's experience, I really recommend it, plus, the delivery was super fast and in great shape, no complaints.

La primera vez que leí el libro me encantó pero como lo leía en todas partes se dañó un poco, decidí comprarlo aquí para simplemente poder guardarlo como trofeo y de accesorio, pero llegó maltratado 😭

Good book good condition I personally like collections of short stories