Mothers and strangers : essays on motherhood from the new South /
In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call 'Mother.' Writers Lee Smith and Samia Serageldin have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and...
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- A beautiful mother / Marianne Gingher
- The imagined sorrows of my mother's face /
- Michael Malone
- You dumb bell / James Seay
- From Tehran to Florida : Pouri joon's fierce love / Omid Safi
- I want to undie you / Jaki Shelton Green
- Are you my mother? / Jill McCorkle
- Child bride / Daniel Wallace
- Settling into marriage / Phillip Lopate
- Encore / Alan Shapiro
- Frankye / Frances Mayes
- Shut up! We're going to the Masters / Marshall Chapman
- Helen of Marion, the woman behind the velvet mask / E.C. Hanes
- Estate sale / Sally Greene
- The good fight / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
- The Persian Mom Mafia / Melody Moezzi
- La chingona / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
- Scuppernongs and beef fat : some things about the women who raised me / Randall Kenan
- My mother, my muse / Clyde Edgerton
- Ties that blind / Hal Crowther
- Beatrice and Mamie / Belle Boggs
- Keeping secrets / Sharon K. Swanson
- The curse of living in interesting times / Samia Serageldin
- Drag racing to the promised land / Lynden Harris
- This is your mom / Elaine Neil Orr
- One hundred years of letters / Margaret W. Rich
- A mother and son reunion / Steven Petrow
- The last word / Bland Simpson.