Review by emergencily - What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence

4.5

anthology of short stories from different authors writing about their relationships with their mothers
the things we shouldn't have said,the things left unsaid, and all the remnants of a shattered relationship in between
the eerie, self-actualizing moment of growth in a child's life where they understand their mother not as someone formed of their perceptions of her, but a person all in her own -- and the ensuing fallout of that new knowledge
there's like 2 or 3 stories that are weak or stylistically don't mesh with the collection as a whole, but most of them are really well written, emotional, insightful, vulnerable pieces
a few of them were so good and hit so close to home that it would bring me to tears multiple times in the span of a 30 page short story
I also love the diversity of the stories. each author comes from such a different context and has such a different outlook, but there's universal core themes in each of love, recovery, and forgiveness