Something Is Wrong: An Excerpt From BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN
April 14th, 2021 | by Gina Frangello
I did not and will not regain my mother. I am the only mother now.
About Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello is the author of Blow Your House Down, Every Kind of Wanting, A Life in Men, Slut Lullabies, and My Sister’s Continent. Her short fiction, essays, book reviews, and journalism have been published in Ploughshares, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Fence, Five Chapters, Prairie Schooner, Chicago Reader, and many other publications. She lives with her family in the Chicago area.
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The Common Denominator: An Inventory on the State of Motherhood in America
September 13th, 2018 | by Gina Frangello
In March, 2011, on a pleasantly cool afternoon in Virginia, a thirty-three-year-old mother of two, Kim Brooks, left her four-year-old