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?"
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Mother Doll: Excerpt from the Novel by Katya Apekina
April 25th, 2024 | by Katya Apekina
“I guess it was appropriate that my marriage ended after visiting a clubhouse for magicians. The stability of marriage was an illusion.”
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
Attachment Wounds: Writer Frances Badalmenti on the Legacy of Mental Illness and the Appeal of a White Duvet
May 28th, 2019 | by Cheryl Klein
"There was this tremendous fear of intimacy, which was rooted in the fear of loss.... We both knew that this was going to be our story and that our story would be very powerful."
I Don’t Blame You: An Excerpt from the Novel by Frances Badalmenti
May 28th, 2019 | by Frances Badalamenti
I thought back to when she was dying. When she had said to me, “You got so mad that you bit me once.”
THE HOURS (AND HOURS, AND HOURS…): An Interview with Pamela Erens
September 28th, 2016 | by Meg Lemke
How long? How many hours (and hours, and hours…)? New mothers find ourselves urgently asking each other for numbers, after birth. We
THE UNEXPECTED DO-OVER: Desiree Cooper on How She Learned to Love Babies
March 21st, 2016 | by Desiree Cooper
Babies are not my cup of tea. Unfortunately, I didn’t figure that out until I had one. By the time