The Flawed-Mom Memoir My Kid Might Write
December 16th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
People rarely write memoirs about purely happy childhoods
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The Wild Robot as Transracial Adoption Story
October 30th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
I watched it as an allegory of a determined but clueless white woman adopting a Brown child. (Is there anything more on-brand for a white woman than seeing every movie as being about me?)
Cultural Studies: My Son, the N-Word, and Knowing Your Memes
October 7th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Love is love, but fear is many things
Filling in the Gap: A (Very) Short List of Activities for Pre-Tweens and Toddlers
August 28th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Scream into a fan to make their voices sound weird. Take turns trying to shove each other through the cat door
Full Times: When You’re Tired But Can’t Blame the Patriarchy
June 20th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
She resented me for resenting her. Did I really think she wanted to work two jobs?
Losing Grip: Author Roxanna Asgarian on the Child Welfare System
May 6th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"The systems are clearly biased...but we also see in the Hart story just how many individual acts of bias contributed to these kids' deaths."
Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Novelist Katya Apekina on Russia, Motherhood, and Mother Doll
April 25th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"Russian immigrants find the American friendliness to be off-putting and insane. Why do people smile so much?"
Spice Up Your Life
April 2nd, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Inhabiting a running first-person narrative about how much you suck is not, as it turns out, a particularly productive way to live.
Stories Stories: Laurie Frankel’s Adoption Novel, Family Family, is Neither Sunshine Nor Misery
February 12th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"If it’s simple, you can say it in a social media post; it’s because it’s so hard that it has to be novel." —Laurie Frankel
Do You See What I See?
January 18th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
Did I sense my dad’s sadness about this time of year? Was it the shortening days, the story of a magical baby born in the bleakest of times