Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for an advance copy of Story Of Your Mother.

For a man, I believe I am emotional, nostalgic, don’t mind a bit of romance and try to understand and care about the other genders world. However, I don’t think this book was meant for me. There were lots of sections about child parent relationships that I could connect with, but, many that are really about mother and child.
The second concern I have with this book is it is quite short. It is 180 IPad pages, which is already short. But, with many, many short chapters and only half a page or less used at the end of each chapter, I can safely call this a novella.

The third concern is the fact that this is a series of essays, that loosely fit together, each chapter was put together in ways that did not seamlessly fit together. In fact, one could say, it was all over the place. I do think she was trying to put together a bunch of seemingly unrelated parts to represent how she felt as someone made up of many parts, but it didn’t totally work.

Beautiful reflection on motherhood and all it means entails and shares incredible insight and reflection