thanks to booktasters and the author for providing me with a copy in exchange for a honest review

I highly recommend this collection of short stories!
"a masterful exploration of life's uncertainty"
cw: death, kidnap (mention of), rape (of minor), genital mutilation, abortion.
The writing is superb, and the author has that incredible capacity of putting you, not only in the scene, but in the skin of the protagonist. 
Fisher creates complicated, flawed characters, that you care deeply for. As the title indicates, all these stories center greatly around a mother figure, but the main character is not always a mother. Most of the main characters are Nigerian, either living in Nigeria or being immigrants in America. However, the locations of the stories are set around the world.
All the stories have some sort of hardship in them, with more or less open endings (most of them quite bittersweet), which is not for everyone, but i personally enjoy. 
As each story is different and hard to talk about without giving it away, what ties all these together is that they're tales of difficult trials and hard, trying times for these characters