Not THE Real Dad, Not A Real Dad: Amy Abugo Ongiri’s RAD FAMILY
December 7th, 2016 | by Amy Abugo Ongiri
I unexpectedly became a parent at forty-seven. I say unexpectedly, but we had actually been preparing for weeks and trying
Browsing the "excerpt" Tag
ROSALIE LIGHTNING: An Excerpt from TOM HART’s Graphic Memoir About His Daughter
May 19th, 2016 | by Tom Hart
Tom Hart’s daughter Rosalie died, before she turned two years old. He drew a book about her, about grief, and about
AT THE END OF EVERY ENDLESS DAY: Elizabeth Isadora Gold on Motherhood and Mental Illness
April 4th, 2016 | by Elizabeth Isadora Gold
At the end of every endless day, my husband, Danny, took my baby daughter, Clara, out of my arms after
BIRTHING PLANS: Comics by Emily Flake from MAMA TRIED
October 6th, 2015 | by Emily Flake
What? Want More?? Here’s the book: Mama Tried is not a parenting manual. I do not have any particularly sage advice for
Road Trip: SOPHIE WYNDAM on Healing
October 5th, 2015 | by Sophie Wyndam
Driving to Yosemite. It’s Saturday early morning. We left in the middle of the night because how can you sleep
YOU CAN TAKE A BABY TO SCOTLAND: An Excerpt from Ayun Halliday’s NO TOUCH MONKEY!
September 24th, 2015 | by Ayun Halliday
I’ve gushed on about Ayun Halliday in these pages before. She is one of MUTHA’s mother/writer idols. So, hey—guess what? Feminist
Anya Ulinich’s THE INTELLECTUAL AND THE DARLING: A PLAY FOR CHILDREN ABOUT GENDER ROLES, excerpted from LENA FINKLE’S MAGIC BARREL
November 4th, 2014 | by Anya Ulinich
Anya Ulinich’s Lena Finkle’s Magic Barrel is an autobiographical graphic novel. Lena shares a striking physical similarity to her author, and
THE TIGERS IN THE ROOM, by Arielle Greenberg–from LABOR DAY: TRUE BIRTH STORIES BY TODAY’S BEST WOMEN WRITERS
October 20th, 2014 | by Arielle Greenberg
“The Tigers in the Room,” a story of three births, by poet Arielle Greenberg, comes from Labor Day: True Birth Stories by Today’s Best
LUCKY AMERICAN GIRL by KJ Dell’Antonia: From THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH
January 23rd, 2014 | by KJ Dell’Antonia
This glimpse from “Lucky American Girl,” the story of KJ Dell’Antonia’s daughter’s adoption from China, comes from The Good Mother
Katrina Alcorn’s MAXED OUT: AMERICAN MOMS ON THE BRINK – An Excerpt
January 6th, 2014 | by Katrina Alcorn
Katrina Alcorn’s Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink is the compulsively readable memoir by a Bay Area tech worker
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