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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Serageldin, Samia (Editor), Smith, Lee, 1944- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.