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Mothers Before

Stories and Portraits of Our Mothers as We Never Saw Them
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Description

Who was your mother before she was a mother? Essays and photos from Brit Bennett, Jennifer Egan, Danzy Senna, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, and many more.

In this remarkable collection, New York Times-bestselling novelist Edan Lepucki gathers more than sixty original essays and favorite photographs to explore this question. The daughters in Mothers Before are writers and poets, artists and teachers, and the images and stories they share reveal the lives of women in ways that are vulnerable and true, sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and always moving.

Contributors include Brit Bennett, Jennine Capó Crucet, Jennifer Egan, Angela Garbes, Annabeth Gish, Alison Roman, Lisa See, Danzy Senna, Dana Spiotta, Lan Samantha Chang, Laura Lippman, Jia Tolentino, Tiffany Nguyen, Charmaine Craig, Maya Ramakrishnan, Eirene Donohue, and many others.

Product Details

PublisherHarry N. Abrams
Publish DateApril 07, 2020
Pages176
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9781419742941
Dimensions8.1 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches | 1.1 pounds

About the Author

Edan Lepucki is the author of the novels California and Woman No. 17 as well as the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me. She is also the creator of the popular Instagram account @mothersbefore.

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