The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood by Carrie Mullins (Hardcover) United States Biographies trusting that this unknown woman

trusting that this unknown woman will provide answers to the mysteries of her past and guide her on her way into the future

Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South

local residents are found brutally murdered in their home

Everyone knows the legend

This wildly inventive

The Book of Mothers: How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood by Carrie Mullins (Hardcover) United States Biographies trusting that this unknown woman"Timely and evergreen, engaging and infuriating, personal and universala necessary reintroduction to some of fiction's most familiar mothers." Cecile Richards, bestselling author of Make Trouble and former president of Planned Parenthood A smart and engaging look at fifteen classic novels that have shaped our cultural notions of motherhood. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew