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Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps

by Dave Isay

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Motherhood through many voices

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Awards & Recognition

  • Editorial selection

    Chicago Tribune Editor's Choice

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Motherhood through many voices

Compiled from StoryCorps conversations, this collection approaches motherhood through accounts shared by parents and children, spouses, siblings, and friends. Its portrait is deliberately broad: the source describes experiences marked by joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph. The emphasis falls on the relationship between mother and child, while the range of speakers places that bond within the wider life of family. As an edited collection of conversations, the book offers multiple perspectives rather than a single continuous narrative, bringing personal accounts together around the varied meanings of motherhood in American life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults interested in oral-history conversations and personal accounts
  • Readers exploring motherhood and parent-child relationships
  • Those seeking a collection about family and its varied experiences

Themes

MotherhoodParent-child bondsFamily relationshipsJoy and hardshipPersonal testimony

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Book overview

"[Mom] bursts with stories that are unvarnished, sad, funny, wise, and most of all, very real." --Chicago Tribune (Editor's Choice)

"Isay brings a satisfying second collection of StoryCorps selections after the bestselling Listening Is an Act of Love. . . . Readers will encounter an emotional range from heart-wrenching to inspirational in these compelling maternal accounts." --Publishers Weekly

Featuring StoryCorps' most revealing stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to offer an entirely original portrait of motherhood. In conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In these stories of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumphs, we learn new truths about that most primal and sacred of bonds-the relationship between mother and child. With this vital contribution to the American storybook, StoryCorps has created a tribute to mothers that honors the meaning of family and the expansiveness of the human heart.

Dave Isay's latest book, Callings, published in 2016 from Penguin Press.

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