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245	0	0	_aWhat my mother and I don't talk about : _b15 writers break the silence / _cedited by Michele Filgate.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2019.
264		1	_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_axviii, 267 pages ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tWhat my mother and I don't talk about / _rby Michele Filgate -- _tMy mother's (gate) keeper / _rby Cathi Hanauer -- _tThesmophoria / _rby Melissa Febos -- _tXanadu / _rby Alexander Chee -- _t16 Minetta Lane / _rby Dylan Landis -- _tFifteen / _rby Bernice L. McFadden -- _tNothing left unsaid / _rby Julianna Baggott -- _tThe same story about my mom / _rby Lynn Steger Strong -- _tWhile these things/feel American to me / _rby Kiese Laymon -- _tMother tongue / _rby Carmen Maria Machado -- _tAre you listening? / _rby André Aciman -- _tBrother, can you spare some change? / _rby Sari Botton -- _tHer body / My body / _rby Nayomi Munaweera -- _tAll about my mother / _rby Brandon Taylor -- _tI met fear on the hill / _rby Leslie Jamison.
520			_aAs an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything. As Filgate writes, Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them. There’s relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn’t say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves.
650		0	_aMother and child.
650		0	_aMothers.
650		0	_aParent and adult child.
700	1		_aFilgate, Michele,
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