Like the live readings, the anthologyListen to Your Motheris a brutally honest look at modern motherhood. It showcases the experiences of ordinary people of different races, genders, and ages, and takes readers on a journey through motherhood in all of its complexity, diversity, and humor.
Ann Imig is the founder of the live-reading series Listen to Your Mother, which is a rapidly growing national movement with shows in dozens of cities. She writes the blog Ann's Rants, which was named to Babble's Top 100 Mom Blogs and Top 50 Twitter Moms, and was honored as a Voice of the Year from 2010-2013 by BlogHer. Ann lives with her husband and children in Madison, Wisconsin.
Named one of POPSUGAR's Best Books of 2015!
"Presents motherhood in all its multitudinous
iterations..." —Elle
"Touching and humorous anthology."—Family Circle
“Brimming with essays from quick-witted, unique writers—ranging
from new voices to established ones like Jenny Lawson and Jennifer
Weiner—this book covers all parenting territory. Part of it is
funny and a lot of it is tear-jerking… You may find yourself
staying up way past your bedtime because this one is so hard to put
down.” —Parents magazine
"Lively personal stories."—Cosmopolitan
“Writers reflect on wisdom gleaned from the women who raised them,
motherhood and more in this charming, often funny essay
collection.”—Good Housekeeping
“This frank, funny, and touching anthology…discusses the complex
and diverse array of parenting experiences, from step-motherhood to
infertility, and everything in between.”—Real Simple
"[Listen To Your Mother] proves absolutely that there is no
exclusive definition of ‘mother’…[and] is nearly guaranteed to
shake up your preconceptions of motherhood…There’s a mother for
everyone in this array.”—BookReporter
“A collection of hilarious, sometimes-raunchy, and always
thought-provoking stories about personal experiences with race,
gender, and motherhood.”—PopSugar
“A fascinating glimpse into what motherhood means today for
families with vastly different backgrounds and
experiences.”—American Way
“This collection serves as a significant contribution to literature
on and about motherhood because it breaks down the isolation that
so often surrounds the topic…. These candid writings feel like a
dinner date with a group of smart mothers who share their successes
and failures with wit, fear, melancholy, playfulness, and all of
the emotions that surround the reality of parenting.” —Library
Journal
“The stories in the collection run the gamut, and the result is
varied enough to ensure that readers who don’t identify with one
take will easily find resonance in another. Some will leave readers
laughing out loud, while others will leave them crying. All of this
collection’s stories, however, have one thing in common: readers
will be left planning to call their mothers.” —Publishers
Weekly
“A collection of personal essays about the importance of connecting
mothers to each other for support…. The essays are short, which
enables the book to cover a lot of ground, but they also pack a
strong emotional punch—and they're almost certain to leave any
mother feeling less alone.” —Kirkus Reviews
“With their authentic glimpses into this hard, beautiful thing we
call life, the essays between these covers led me to fresh
perspectives on mothering and being mothered. I savored the open
vulnerability that met me with each turn of the page. From the
hilarious to the profound, and not bound by gender or geography,
these stories generously plumbed the depths of all that is
motherhood.” —Anna Whiston Donaldson, New York Times-bestselling
author of Rare Bird“I’ve been a longtime fan of Ann’s Listen to
Your Mother movement, and I just adore this collection. The stories
are diverse, yet bound together by Listen to Your Mother’s
trademark rawness and honesty. A perfect gift for any woman in your
life . . . or yourself!” —Jill Smokler, New York Times-bestselling
author of Confessions of a Scary Mommy“Listen to Your Mother
manages to do what few anthologies do: it makes us see ourselves
clearly through the eyes of many different writers—all gifted and
many wickedly funny. These writers voice the things that everyone
thinks and no one says. Long live the mothers!” —Suzanne Finnamore,
award-winning author of Split
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