Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South Fiction_Gift_Guide idiosyncratic writers like David Foster

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the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows

has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape

it forgets countless eviscerations

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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South Fiction_Gift_Guide idiosyncratic writers like David FosterIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty eight writers set out to discover what they know, and dont know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their